14
Zeraas, small copper coin.
15
For details of the construction of these galleys, see notes at the end of the Volume.
16
The common cubit is about 16 inches.
17
Nisan; part of March and April.
18
Chittim, the classical Citium, a Phœnician colony in Cyprus.
19
Nectar; the sweet and perfumed wine of the Phœnicians, said by the Greeks to be the drink of the gods.
20
Senir, in Libanus, now Djebel Sannin.
21
The Grecian Tamith; according to the Phœnician legend, she was the inventor of sails.
22
The Mediterranean.
23
Baaltis, feminine of Baal, lord.
24
Melek was the title of the Kings of Judah, as Pharaoh was that of the Kings of Egypt.
25
See note on Chap. II. (#Note2) at end of Volume.
26
Jam Souph, the Red Sea.
27
I am guilty of an anachronism here for the mere satisfaction of introducing the name of the great historian.
28
Now Ras-el-Abiad.
29
That is, 32½ geographical miles, the rate given by Herodotus.
30
The Minos, Eacus, and Rhadamanthus of the Greeks.
31
The god of subterranean fire and of the hammer. Compare Phtah with the Hephaistos of the Greeks.
32
Italia, from ἰταλός, vitulus.
33
South of the Adriatic.
34
The description of Utica is from M. Daux's admirable book, 'Fouilles executées dans le Zeugis et Byzacium.'
35
Karth, the town; later Cirtha, the actual Constantine.
36
The Canaries.
37
Now Cape Palos.
38
The ancient name of ferrets.