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[Footnote 1: Mr. Norris conjectures "amber."]
[Footnote 2: Dagon.]
[Footnote 3: "Sassanis." The root is probably identical with the Hebrew
"shesh," "fine linen"; thus in Ex. xxvi. I: "Thou shalt make the
tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen."]
[Footnote 4: These are found still in the ruins of Babylon.]
[Footntoe 5: Compare the Beautiful Gate of the Jewish Temple.]
[Footnote 6: Mr. Norris in his Dictionary professes his inability to
master the first words of this line, p. 580. The same remark applies to
line 58. The above rendering is suggested to me by Mr. G. Smith.]