[381] Cf. R. I. Wilberforce in The Five Empires, Chaps. XV, XVIII (London, 1852).
[382] Alexander the Great, p. 368 (by B. I. Wheeler, New York, 1900).
[383] Creasy’s Decisive Battles of the World, p. 79 (New York, 1899).
It was at Arbela, where was to be settled once for all the question of world supremacy, that Alexander, when counseled by his generals to make a night attack on Darius, gave the famous answer οὐ κλέπτο τἠν νίκην—I steal no victory—words that were his motto during his eventful and brilliant career.
[384] Voyages en Turquie, en Perse et aux Indes, Vol I, p. 185 (Paris, 1677).
[385] Die Bedeutung des heutigen Namen’s Kal. ‘at Schergat ist bis jetzt unaufgeklärt geblieben und durfte vielleicht eine Altassyrische Reminiscenz bergen. Vom Mittelmer zum Persischen Golf. Vol. II, p. 210 (by M. von Oppenheim, Berlin, 1900). His countryman, Baron Thielmann, writing of the same ruins a quarter of a century earlier, declares: “This great field of ruin with its pyramid looks truly venerable, but science has as yet made no discoveries here which could help us solve the mystery of this remnant of an ancient era.” Journey in the Caucasus, Persia and Turkey in Asia, Vol. II, p. 136 (London, 1875).
[386] Cf. Sayce Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians, p. 122 (London, 1898).
[387] See Jastrow, op. cit., p. 229.
[388] See W. Andræ’s Der Anu-Adad-Tempel in Assur (Leipsic, 1909); and his Die Festungswerke von Assur (Leipsic, 1913).
[389] Op. cit., Vol. I, p. 328.