155
Aristot. "Metaph." 13, 4. Diogen. Laert. prooem.
156
Theopom. Fragm. 71, 72, ed. Müller.
157
Diogen. Laert. prooem., cf. Suidas, Μάγοι.
158
"Alcib. I." p. 121.
159
Plut. "Alex." c. 30.
160
Plut. "Artax." c. 4, 23, 29.
161
"Themistocl." c. 28.
162
Dinon, Fragm. 9, ed. Müller.
163
"Cyri Instit." 8, 1, 21.
164
Herod. 3, 16.
165
Herod. 1, 101, 131-140; 7, 40, 43, 113, 191; 3, 84.
166
Inscription of Darius at Elvend in Spiegel, "Keilinscriften," s. 45, 47.
167
Behistun, 4, 73-80; 56-61; Persop.
168
Strabo, p. 719; Nicol. Damasc. fragm. 66, ed. Müller.
169
Plin. "H. N." 30, 2; 28, 19.
170
"Vita Pythag." 12.
171
Diogen. Laert prooem.
172
Suidas, Μάγοι.
173
Herod. 1, 100, 124, 125.
174
Ezra, c. v., vi.
175
The Niça of the Vendidad is the Eastern Niça, Parthorum Nisæa, not very far from Merv; above, p. 10, n. 1.
176
Lepsius, "Ueber das ursprungliche Zendalphabet," Abh. B. Akad. 1862, s. 298, 306, 381.
177
"Vendid." 4, 120; Astad Yasht, 1.
178
"Gah Ushahin," 5; "Mihr Yasht," 13, 143.
179
"Mihr Yasht," 118.