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Footnotes:
[1] Jowett's translation of Plato's Statesman, vol. iii., pp. 562, 571.
[2] Jowett's translation of Plato's Phaedo, vol. i., pp. 407, 408.
[3] 541 B.C.
[4] Herodotus gives it as higher than this, a few writers less, the greatest estimate being three hundred and seventy-five feet, the least seventy-five.
[5] "Bit"—tribe, or family. A general prefix to the surname.
[6] The worship of the goddess Istar began originally in the city of Erech.
[7] Her archetypal name, Istar being only a cognomen, the name given her by the people.
[8] According to the calculations of Babylonish historians.