Ivi NOTES. 



C 284 ) p. 182. Letronne shews, from the fanatical murder of the daughter 

 jf Theon of Alexandria, that the much contested period of Diopharitus cannot 

 fall later than the year 389 (Sur 1'Origine grecque des Zodiaques pre'tendua 

 egyptiens, 1837, p. 26). 



C 285 ) p. 184. This beneficial influence of the extension of a language was 

 finely noticed in Pliny's praise of Italy : " omnium terrarum alumna eadem 

 et parens, nnmine Deum electa, quse sparsa congrcgaret imperia, ritusque 

 molliret, et tot populorum discordes ferasque linguas sermonis commercio 

 contraheret, colloquia, et humanitafem komini daret, hreviterque una cunc- 

 tarum gentium in toto orbe patria fieret" (Plin. Hist. nat. iii. 5). 



t 286 ) p. 186. Klaproth, Tableaux historique-de 1'Asie, 1826, p. 6567. 



t 28 ') p. 186. To this fair-haired, blue-eyed, Indo-germanic, Gothic, or 

 Arian race of eastern Asia, belong the Usiin, Tingling, Hutis, and great Yueti. 

 The last are called by the Chinese writers a Thibetian Nomade race, who, 

 300 years before our era, migrated between the upper course of the Hoang-ho 

 and the snowy mountains of Nanschau. I here recal this descent, as the Seres 

 are also described as " rutilis comis et ceernleis oculis" (compare Ukert, Geogr. 

 der Griech. und Romer, Th. ii i. Abth. ii. 1845, S. 275). We owe to the 

 researches of Abel Remusat and Klaproth, which are among the brilliant his- 

 torical discoveries of our age, the knowledge of these fair-haired races, which, 

 in the most eastern part of Asia, gave the first impulse to what has been 

 called " the great migration of nations." 



C 288 ) p. 187. Letroune, in the Observations crit. et archeol. sur lea 

 Representations zodiacales de 1'Antiquite, 1824, p. 99, as well as in his later 

 work, Sur 1'Origine grecque des Zodiaques pretendus egyptiens, 1837, p. 27. 



( 289 ) p. 187. The sound investigator, Colebrooke, places Warahamihira in 

 the fifth, Brahmagupta at the end of the sixth century, and Aryabhatta rather 

 undecidedly between 200 and 400 of our era. (Compare Holtzmann iiber 

 den griechischen Ursprung des iudischen Thierlcreises, 1841, S. 23.) 



( i90 ) p. 187. On the reasons on which the assertion in the text of the ex- 

 ceedingly late commencement of Strabo's work rests, see Groskurd's German 

 translation, 1831, Th. i. S. xvii. 



C- 91 ) p. 188. Strabo, lib. i. p. 14; lib. ii. p. 1]8 ; lib. xvi. p. 781 ; lib. 

 xvii. p. 798 and 815. 



( 9i ) p. 188. Compare the two passages of Strabo, lib. i. p. 65, and lib. 

 ii. p. 118 (Ilumboldt, Examen critique de 1'Hist. de la Geographic, T. i. p. 

 152 154). In the important new edition of Strabo published by Gustav 

 Kramer, 1844, Th. i. p. 100, " the parallel of Athens is read instead of the 



