[409] When the wind blew from the south, this road was covered by such a depth of water as to be impracticable: for some time before he reached the spot the wind had blown strong from the south—but as he came near, the special providence of the gods (so he and his friends conceived it) brought on a change of wind to the north, so that the sea receded and left an available passage, though his soldiers had the water up to their waists. Grote's History of Greece, Part II. ch. xcii.
[410] See Smith's 'Biographical Dictionary' s.v.
[411] This dye was probably made from the murex or purple fish, caught in the Hermionic gulf, in Argolis, which produced a dye only second to that of Tyre.
[412] "No certainty is attainable about the ancient geography of these regions. Mr. Long's Map of Ancient Persia shows how little can be made out." (Grote's 'History of Greece,' part ii. chap. cxiii., note.)
[413] Lykus in Greek signifies a wolf.
[414] In Persepolis, the capital of the district called Persis.
[415] The ancients, whose bodies were anointed with oil or unguents, used dust when wrestling, to enable them to hold one another.
[416] The Sea of Azof.
[417] Antipater had been left by Alexander as his viceroy in Macedonia.
[418] The word which I have translated 'striped' is mentioned by Xenophon in the Cyropædia as one of the ensigns of royalty assumed by Cyrus.