[28:1] See Homer, Odyssey, xv. 402. See the note in the Odyssey, by F. H. Rothe, pp. 233-34. Leipsic 1834. In the Latin version of Strabo we have these words: "Videtur sub-Syriae nomine mentionem facere Homerus his quidem verbis:—
'Ortygiam supra Syria est quaedam insula.'"
Strabo, Rer. Geog. lib. x. p. 711. Oxford 1807. The passage in Homer is thus rendered by Chapman:—
"There is an isle above Ortygia,
If thou hast heard, they call it Syria."
The present inhabitants of this island call themselves [Greek: Surianoi] or Syrians. See Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, art. "Syros."
[28:2] Bingham's Origines Ecclesiasticae, iii. 196. London 1840.
[28:3] Smith's Assyrian Discoveries, p. 22. London 1875.
[29:1] Smith, p. 21.
[29:2] Dr. Lightfoot imagines that he has discovered a wonderful confirmation of his views in the word "likewise" which here occurs (vol. i. p. 574). It is not easy to see the force of his argument; but, with the explanations given in the text, the word has peculiar significance. It implies that whilst the messenger was to carry the letters from Smyrna to Syria, he was also, or likewise, to bring back Smyrna the letters sent to Syria from Philippi.
[30:1] Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans, § 11.