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sails than one, since Xenophon describes a Phoenician merchant ship as sailing by means of a quantity of rigging, which implies several sails (Xen. OEconom. § 8).]
911 [ Scylax. Periplus, § 112.]
912 [ Thucyd. i. 13.]
913 [ Herod. l.s.c.]
914 [ See Herod. vii. 89-94.]
915 [ Ibid. vii. 44.]
916 [ Ibid. vii. 100.]
917 [ Xen. OEconom. § 8, pp. 11-16 (Ed. Schneider).]
918 [ Herodotus (iii. 37) says they were at the prow of the ship; but Suidas (ad voc.) and Hesychius (ad voc.) place them at the stern. Perhaps there was no fixed rule.]
919 [ The παταϊκοί of the Greeks probably representes the Hebrew (אינסולפר), “insculpere,” and is applied in Scripture to “carved work” of any kind. (See 1 Kings vi. 29; Ps. lxxiv. 6; &c.) Some, however, derive the word from the Egyptian name Phthah, or Ptah. (See Kenrick, Phoenicia, p. 235.)]
920 [ Manilius, i. 304-308.]
921 [ Strab. Geograph. xv.]
922 [ Tarshish (Tartessus) was on the Atlantic coast, outside the Straits.]
923 [ Ezek. xxvii.]
924 [ Signified by one of its chief cities, Haran (now Harran).]
925 [ Signified by “the house of Togarmarh” (verse 14).]
926 [ Ionia, Cyprus, and Hellas are the Greek correspondents of Javan, Chittim, and Elishah, Chittim representing Citium, the capital of Cyprus.]
927 [ Spain is intended by “Tarshish” (verse 12) == Tartessus, which was a name given by the Phoenicians to the tract upon the lower Bætis (Guadalquivir).]
928 [ See the Speaker’s Commentary, ad loc.]
929 [ Strab. xv. 3, § 22.]
930 [ Minnith appears as an Ammonite city in the history of Jephthah (Judg. xi. 33).]
931 [ Herod. ii. 37, 182; iii. 47.]
932 [ See Rawlinson’s Herodotus, ii. 157; History of Ancient Egypt, i. 509; Rosellini, Mon. Civili, pls. 107-109.]
933 [ See Herod. iii. 107; History of Ancient Egypt, ii. 222-224.]
934 [ That these were Arabian products appears from Herod. iii. 111, 112. They may be included in the “chief of all spices,” which Tyre obtained from the merchants of Sheba and Raamah (Ezek. xxvii. 22).]
935 [ Arabia has no ebony trees, and can never have produced elephants.]
936 [ See Ezek. xxvii. 23, 24. Canneh and Chilmad were probably Babylonian towns.]
937 [ Upper Mesopotamia is indicated by one of its chief cities, Haran (Ezek. xxvii. 23).]
938 [ Ezek. xxvii. 6. Many objects in ivory have been found in Cyprus.]
939 [ Ibid. verse 7. The Murex brandaris is still abundant on the coast of Attica, and off the island of Salamis (Perrot et Chipiez, Hist. de l’Art, iii. 881).]
940 [ Strab. iii. 2, § 8-12; Diod. Sic. v. 36; Plin. H. N. iii. 3.]
941 [ See Gen. xxxvii. 28.]
942 [ Isaiah xxi. 13.]
943 [ Ibid. lx. 6.]
944 [ Ibid. verses 6, 7.]