v.]
[Footnote 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.]
[Footnote 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.)]
[Footnote 413: Lykus in Greek signifies a wolf.]
[Footnote 414: In Persepolis, the capital of the district called
Persis.]
[Footnote 415: The ancients, whose bodies were anointed with oil or
unguents, used dust when wrestling, to enable them to hold one
another.]
[Footnote 416: The Sea of Azof.]
[Footnote 417: Antipater had been left by Alexander as his viceroy in
Macedonia.]
[Footnote 418: The word which I have translated 'striped' is mentioned
by Xenophon in the _Cyropaedia_ as one of the ensigns of royalty
assumed by Cyrus.]
[Footnote 419: Probably Cabul or Ghuznee. The whole geography of
Alexander's Asiatic campaigns will be found most exhaustively
discussed in Grote's 'History of Greece,' part ii. ch. xcii., s. 99.]
[Footnote 420: The same name occurs in the Life of Sulla, c. 15, and
Life of Lucullus, c. 26.]
[Footnote 421: The river Jhelum in the Punjaub.]
[Footnote 422: A cubit is the space from the point of the elbow to
that of the little finger: a span is the space one can stretch over
with the thumb and the little finger.
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