[225] Thucyd. 1, 104, 109, 110; Diod. 11, 71, 74, 75, 77; 12, 3; Isocr. "De Pace," 82.
[226] Ctes. "Pers." 44. The paidagogos of Alcibiades was no doubt named after this Zopyrus. Plutarch, "Lycurg." c. 16; Alcib. c. 1; Kirchhoff, "Enstehungszeit," s. 15.
[227] E. g. Ménant, "Babylon," p. 204; Oppert. "Expéd." 1, 187, 223.
[228] So according to the Babylonian text in Schrader, "Keilinschriften," s. 345.
[229] Oppert after the Turanian text: "I slew much people from the army of Nidintabel, and drove others to the river; they were drowned in the river."
[230] The Turanian version mentions Egypt after Assyria. In the inscription nothing is said of this country; no Egyptians are found in the rows of the conquered rebels.
[231] The two Egibi-tablets quoted by Boscawen in "Trans. Bibl. Arch." 6, 68, on Nebuchadnezzar III. have been rightly ascribed by Oppert, relying on the names of the witnesses, to the later rebellion of Arakha.
[232] Cf. Schrader, "Keilinschriften," s. 346.
[233] Schrader, loc. cit. s. 346. The day of the month belongs to the corresponding Babylonian month Tebet.
[234] Mordtmann, loc. cit. s. 75; Schrader, loc. cit. s. 347.