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For the genealogy of Darius cf. App. IV. 3.

For the wings cf. the figure on the tomb at Murghab (125. 3 n.).


For the primitive belief that a man was responsible for acts done in dreamland cf. Tylor, P. C. i. 438 seq.; the soul was supposed to go abroad in sleep or trance; cf. the old belief that it was unlucky to turn a sleeper over for fear the soul should not find its way back. Here it is combined with the later and more general belief that dreams foretell the future. For a somewhat similar combination cf. ‘the dreams’ of Joseph (Gen. xxxvii. 5 seq.).

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