[354] Genesis x: 11.
[355] iii: 19.
[356] ii: 13–15.
[357] Anabasis, Bk. III, Chap. 4. Cf. also Travels in the Track of the Ten Thousand, p. 139 et seq. (by W. F. Ainsworth, London, 1844).
[358] Charon, 23.
[359] Even Cicero, declares: “Et apud Herodotum, patrem historiæ ... sunt innumerabiles fabulæ.” De Legisbus Lib. I, Cap. I.
[360] Arabian writers, it is true, had agreed “during nine hundred years, in identifying the mounds on the east bank of the Tigris opposite Mosul with the ruins of Nineveh” but their views were so far from meeting with general acceptance that so late as 1843 the great French explorer, Botta, was convinced when he uncovered the wonderful palace of Sargon II, King of Assyria, B. C. 721–705, that the site of Nineveh was occupied by the ruins of Khorsabad. But the noted English investigator, Layard, “contrary to the teachings of Arabian and Syrian historians and local tradition,” was equally positive that “the ruins of Nineveh were buried under the mound of Nimroud,” which is twenty miles to the south of the actual site of the famous Assyrian capital which was so long the rival and eventually the conqueror of Babylon. Cf. By Nile and Tigris, Vol. II, p. 8 et seq., 15, 16 (by E. A. Wallis Budge, London, 1920).
[361] The Buried City of the East: Nineveh, Preface (London, 1851).
[362] Nineveh and Its Palaces. The Discoveries of Botta and Layard Applied to the Elucidation of Holy Writ, p. 1 et seq. (by J. Bonomi, London, 1852).
[363] “At the end of the seventeenth century, B.C., Asurbanipal’s sculptors at Nineveh were representing horses which the frieze of the Parthenon can hardly equal, and lions which no sculptor has ever surpassed in careful observations and truthful delineation.” The Ancient History of the Near East, p. 536 (by H. R. Hall, London, 1913).