[168] Strabo, p. 719; Nicol. Damasc. fragm. 66, ed. Müller.
[169] Plin. "H. N." 30, 2; 28, 19.
[170] "Vita Pythag." 12.
[171] Diogen. Laert prooem.
[172] Suidas, Μάγοι.
[173] Herod. 1, 100, 124, 125.
[174] Ezra, c. v., vi.
[175] The Niça of the Vendidad is the Eastern Niça, Parthorum Nisæa, not very far from Merv; above, p. 10, n. 1.
[176] Lepsius, "Ueber das ursprungliche Zendalphabet," Abh. B. Akad. 1862, s. 298, 306, 381.
[177] "Vendid." 4, 120; Astad Yasht, 1.