[Footnote 1414:  Ramantha (Laodicea) in later times claimed the rank of “Metropolis,” which implied a supremacy over other cities; but the real chief power of the north was Aradus.]

[Footnote 1415:  Hom. Il. xxiii. 743.]

[Footnote 1416:  Ibid. 743-748.]

[Footnote 1417:  Hom. Od. iv. 613-619.]

[Footnote 1418:  Ibid. xv. 460 (Worsley’s translation).]

[Footnote 1419:  Hom. Il. vi. 290-295 (Sotheby’s translation).]

[Footnote 1420:  Scylax, Periplus, Sec. 104.]

[Footnote 1421:  Cl.  Julius, quoted by Stephen of Byzantium, ad voc.  {DOROS}.]

[Footnote 1422:  Justin, Hist.  Philipp. xviii. 3.]

[Footnote 1423:  Strab. xvi. ii.  Sec. 13.]

[Footnote 1424:  Appian, De Rebus Punicus, Sec. 1, &c.]

[Footnote 1425:  Gesenius, Mon.  Phoen. p. 267.]

[Footnote 1426:  The Sidonian vessel which carries off Eumaeus quits the Sicilian haven after sunset, and continues its voyage night and day without stopping—­{’Exemar men onos pleomen nuktas te kai e mar} (Hom. Od. xv. 471-476).]

[Footnote 1427:  Strabo, xvi. 2, Sec. 24.]

[Footnote 1428:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 1429:  Manilius, i. 304-309.]

[Footnote 1430:  Herod. i. 1.]

[Footnote 1431:  See Hom. Odyss. xv. 455.]

[Footnote 1432:  Herod. l.s.c.]

[Footnote 1433:  Hom. Odyss. xv. 403-484.]

[Footnote 1434:  Strabo, xvi. 2, Sec. 14.]

[Footnote 1435:  We find hereditary monarchy among the Hittites (Records of the Past, iv. 28), at Tyre (Menand. ap.  Joseph. Contr.  Ap. i. 18), in Moab (Records, xi. 167), in Judah and Israel, in Syria (2 Kings, xiii. 24), in Ammon (2 Sam. x. 1), &c.]

[Footnote 1436:  1 Sam. viii. 20.]

[Footnote 1437:  When kings are priests, it is noted as exceptional. (See Menand. l.s.c.; Inscription of Tabnit, line 1.)]

[Footnote 1438:  Judg. x. 12.]

[Footnote 1439:  Kenrick, Phoenicia, p. 343.]

[Footnote 1440:  Josh. xix. 29.]

[Footnote 1441:  Records of the Past, ii. 111.]

[Footnote 1442:  Justin, Hist.  Phil. xviii. 3.]

[Footnote 1443:  Claudian, Bell.  Gild. l. 120.]

[Footnote 1444:  Solinus, Polyhist. Sec. 29; Plin. H.  N. v. 76.]

[Footnote 1445:  Herod. i. 1 ({nautiliai makrai}).]

[Footnote 1446:  Maspero, Histoire Ancienne des Peuples de l’Orient, p. 321.]

[Footnote 1447:  See the fragments of Philo Byblius, passim.]

[Footnote 1448:  Euseb. Praep.  Ev. x. 9, Sec. 12.]

[Footnote 1449:  Tatian, Adv.  Graec. Sec. 58.]

[Footnote 1450:  Cinyras and Belus are both connected with Cyprus as kings.  The Assyrians found kings there in all the cities (G.  Smith, Eponym Canon. p. 139).  So the Persians (Herod. v. 104-110).]