[45] Judith, cap. 2.
[46] Ctesias in Persicis. Xenephon, lib. i.
[47] Plutarch, in Apothegmat.
[48] De Mundo.
[49] Herod lib. vii.
[50] Xenoph. lib. iv.
[51] Strabo lib. xv.
[52] Esther, chap. ii.
[53] Joseph. lib. xi. cap. 6.
[54] If I remember right, it is D. Prideaux that says Esther is a Persian word, of no signification. I rather think it is Abyssinian, because it has a signification in that language. Eshté, the masculine, signifies an agreeable present, and is a proper name, of which Esther is the feminine.