[2662] Casaubon observes that Diodorus Siculus attributes the invention of the potter’s wheel to Talus, a nephew of Dædalus, and that Theophrastus awards it to one Hyperbius of Corinth.
[2663] Iliad xviii. 600. Posidonius chose to regard this passage as an interpolation, and would not give the praise of the invention to any other than Anacharsis.
[2664] ἀβίους.
[2665] Iliad xiii. 5.
[2666] See chap. iii. § 3, 4, of this book.
[2667] ἄνδρα γόητα, one who used a kind of howling incantation while repeating spells.
[2668] See book vii. chap. iii. § 5, page 456.
[2669] Gossellin observes that the Dacians did not extend to the sources of the Danube, but to Bohemia, near the middle of the course of the Danube.
[2670] Gossellin seems to think that these Daæ are identical with the inhabitants of Daghistan. Davus is not found as the name of a slave amongst the Greeks till after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
[2671] Hyrcania comprehended the Corcan and Daghistan.