1. Dum Assyrios penes, Medosque, et Persas Oriens fuit,
despectissima pars servientium. Tacit. Hist. v. 8.
Herodotus, who visited Asia whilst it obeyed the last of
those empires, slightly mentions the Syrians of Palestine,
who, according to their own confession, had received from
Egypt the rite of circumcision. See 1. ii. c. 104.