[299] Dan. chap. vi. ver. 8. and Esther, chap. i. ver. 19.
[300] Ezra, chap. v. ver. 14 and chap. vi. ver. 5.
[301] Dan. chap. v. ver. 30.
[302] Lucan lib. x. ver. 280.
[303] Vide Montesq. liv. 21. chap 8.
[304] Lucan, lib. 9. ver. 515.
[305] Athen. lib. 5.
[306] This is probably from Atbara, or the old name of the island of Meroë, which had received that last name only as late as Cambyses.
[307] Plin. lib. 6. cap. 23.
[308] Strabo, lib. 17. p. 932.