. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . and on the 42 LIBATIOX AXD TOAYER OF XERXES. Book ???. ]iim sucli as to hinder his conquest of Europe, until he hadpenetrated to its uttermost boundaries. After he had prayed,he cast the golden cup into the Hellespont, and with it a goldenbowl, and a Persian swor
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . and on the 42 LIBATIOX AXD TOAYER OF XERXES. Book ???. ]iim sucli as to hinder his conquest of Europe, until he hadpenetrated to its uttermost boundaries. After he had prayed,he cast the golden cup into the Hellespont, and with it a goldenbowl, and a Persian sword of the kind which they call acinaces?I cannot say for certain whether it Avas as an offeringto the sun-god that he threw these things into the deep, or whetlier lie hadrepented of having scourged the Hellespont, and thought by hisgifts to make amends to the sea for what he had done. 55. When, however, his offerings were made, the army beganto cross ; and the foot-soldiers, with the horsemen, passed overby one of the bridges—that (namely) which lay towards theEuxine—while the sumpter-beasts and the camp-followers passedby the other, which looked on the Egean. Foremost went theTen Thousand Persians, all Avearing garlands upon their heads;and after them a mixed multitude of many nations. Thesecrossed upon the first whole it is not improbable that, soearly as the reigu of Xerxes, the cnltnswas fully established. A revei-entialregard for Mithra seems to have been apai-t of the religion brought by theArians from their primitive country.(See vol. i. Essay v. p. 349.) - The Persian acinaces was a shortsword, not a scymitar. It was straight,not curved, as Josephus expressly de-clares (Ant. Jud. XX. 7, § lu). liepre- seutations of it abound in the Perse-politan and other sculptures. It is seenhanging in its sheatli, at the wearersriild side (Amm. Marc. xvii. 4), in thefigures of attendants, while in thosesupposed to represent Mithra (see wood-cut above, and compare F. Lajard
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