seems identified with Bel; also art. _Merodach._
[65] _Daniel_, Oxf. 1792, p. 40.
[66] _Chambers's Encyclop._, 1888, art. _Bel._
[67] There is clearly a slip in v. 35 of ?”?±?????®?» for ????????±????????, and
probably in v. 11 of ???±???„???»??? for ???±???…?»?????, indicating some mistakes on
the scribe's part, or errors in his copy.
[68] The same writer, on p. 224, spells ?????— with a final ??.
[69] It is even given in L.C. Cope's _English Composition_ (Lond.,
1900), as an example of the four essentials of composition, viz.
invention, selection, disposition, diction. He also speaks (p. 29) of
the "superb workmanship in framing the narrative."
[70] Bar Hebr?¦us (_op. cit._, p. 27), gives this as a reason why some
would not receive Bel and the Dragon.
[71] Not in ?????.
[72] See note to 'For Whom and with What Object' p. 196.
[73] Compare the Aramaic of the passage, given under 'Chronology,' p.
229.
[74] On the propriety of such a sentence, accordant with Babylonian
ideas of justice, _see_ Mozley, _Ruling O.
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