[692] See Radicals. p. 77.
[693] Petavius in Epiphanium. p. 42.
[694] Herbert's Travels. p. 138.
[695] Procopius. Persica. l. 1. c. 24.
[696] Ovid. Fast. l. 6. v. 291.
[697] Similis est natura Naphthæ, et ita adpellatur circa Babylonem, et in Astacenis Parthiæ, pro bituminis liquidi modo. Pliny. l. 2. c. 106. p. 123.
[698] Callim. H. to Delos. v. 201.
[699] Pliny. l. 2. c. 22. p. 112. He supposes the name to have been given, igne ibi primum reperto.
[700] Callimachus. H. to Delos. v. 325.
[701] Herodotus. l. iv. c. 69.