[217] Strab. xvi. 779. Diod. Sic. xix. 98.
[218] See note on principal canals of Babylonia, by Sir H. C. Rawlinson, in Rawlinson’s Herodotus, i. p. 571.
[219] It is not distinctly stated anywhere that Tyre was actually taken; but the inference from Ezek. c. xxvi. is that it was—or the prophecy has remained unfulfilled.
[220] Isaiah, xliii. 14.
[221] Heeren, i. p. 438.
[222] Herod. i. 183.
[223] Arrian, vii. 7.
[224] Arrian, iii. 16.
[225] Pliny, vi. 17.
[226] Strabo, p. 782.