81 See Adam Bremensis’ _De Situ Daniæ_ ed. Lindenbruch, p. 136;
Buckle’s _History of Civilization_, vol. i. p. 275.
82 Carew, _Surrey_ (ed. 1602), p. 8: “and perhaps under one of those
Flavians, the Jewish workmen made here their first arrival.”
83 Gibbon, chap. i. “The name which, used by Ptolemy and Pliny in a
more confined, by Ammianus and Procopius in a larger sense, has been
derived, ridiculously, from Sarah, the wife of Abraham, obscurely
from the village of Saraka, more plausibly from the Arabic words,
which signify a _thievish_ character, or _Oriental_ situation. Yet
the last and most popular of these etymologies is refuted by
Ptolemy, who expressly remarks the western and southern position of
the Saracens, then an obscure tribe on the borders of Egypt. The
appellation cannot therefore allude to any _national_ character;
and, since it was imported by strangers, it must be found, not in
the Arabic, but in a foreign language.”