[Footnote 125: From "The Liar." Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler.]
[Footnote 126: Ctesias who died after 398 B.C., and wrote a history
of Persia in twenty-four books and a treatise on India. Parts only of
both are now extant.]
[Footnote 127: A legendary king of Ethiopia, who was slain at Troy by
Achilles--a fable, says Rawlinson, which is "one of those in which it
is difficult to determine any germs of truth." His name was given by
the Greeks to one of the Colossi at Thebes in Egypt, from which, when
touched by the rays of the rising sun, there was said to proceed a
strange sound.]
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