[685] Justin Martyr supra.
[686] Scholia upon Statius. Thebaid. l. 1. v. 720.
Seu Persei de rupibus Antri
Indignata sequi torquentem cornua Mithran.
[687] Plutarch: Alexander. p. 703. and Arrian. l. vi. p. 273.
[688] Herodotus. l. 1. c. 187.
[689] Thevenot. part 2d. p. 141, 146.
Some say that Thevenot was never out of Europe: consequently the travels which go under his name were the work of another person: for they have many curious circumstances, which could not be mere fiction.
[690] Clemens Alexandrinus. l. 6. p. 756.
[691] Hyde de Religione Vet. Persar. p. 306.