Strabo, p. 512.
184
Herodotus, iii. 79.
185
Athenæus, xiv. p. 639, c.
186
Dio, Oratio iv., vol. i. p. 76, Dindorf.
187
Mr. Frazer, in his text, attributes the statement to Berosus, a Babylonian priest of about 200 B.C. In fact, we do not know Dio's authority for the tale (G. B. ii. 24, note I). Mr. Frazer admits this in his note. Ctesias may be Dio's source, or he may be inventing. On the other hand, Macrobius, a late Roman writer, says that the Persians used to regard 'as due to the gods the lives of consecrated men whom the Greeks call Zanas' (Macrobius, Saturnalia, iii. 7, 6). But what Zanæ are the learned do not know: whether the word means ζωγανας, or the Zanes at Olympia (Pausanias, v. xxi. 2; G. B. ii. 24, note I). Moreover, Macrobius may have drawn his facts from Dio. But Dio says nothing about 'consecrated men.'
188
G. B. iii. 186.
189
G. B. ii. 24.
190
G. B. iii. 185.
191
G. B. iii. 178.
192
G. B. iii. 185.
193
G. B. iii. 186.
194
G. B. ii. 253.
195
Cieza de Leon, p. 203.
196
G. B. i. 143.
197
Grinnell, Pawnee Hero Stories, pp. 362-369.
198
G. B., ii. 238.
199
G. B. ii. 24, note 1.
200
G. B. iii. 167.
201
G. B. iii. 171.
202
G. B. iii. 170, 171.
203
G. B. iii. 171.
204
G. B. i. 131-157.
205
G. B. ii. 24-26.
206
G. B. ii. 24-26.
207
G. B. ii. 8.
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