[Footnote 2: The above is taken from an Assyrian fragment ("W.A.I.," ii.
35, No. 4) translated in "Records of the Past," vol. xi., pp. 159, 160,
and presents the Assyrian view of purity and the customs of their people.]

[Footnote 3: Literally, "whose veil no freeman of pure race has raised."
Before slaves and men of mean rank, women of the East are not obliged to
veil the face.]

[Footnote 4: Literally, "who has never moistened her teeth with an
intoxicating liquor." "Rec. of the Past," p. 160, l. 6.]

[Footnote 5: The public sale herein described is taken from the statement
of Herodotus (see Herodotus, vol. i., p. 196. Compare "Nic. Dam. Fr.,"
131, and Ælian. "Var. Hist.," iv. 1), who says all the marriageable
virgins in all the towns of the empire or kingdom were sold at public
auction. The beautiful maidens were sold to the highest bidder, and the
proceeds were deposited before the herald. The ugly maidens in turn were
then put up, and the bidders were called upon to take them as wives with
the smallest dowry to be paid from the proceeds of the sales of the
beautiful maids, and they were in turn awarded to those who would accept
them with the smallest amount as dowry. The numerous contracts for the
sales of women now in the British Museum may possibly be records of these
transactions.]

[Footnote 6: "Sab-at-tu," a day of rest for the heart ("W.A.I.," ii. 32),
the Sabbath day, which was dedicated to the worship of the sun, moon, and
stars, and their gods, which were known by different names.]

[Footnote 7: "Lain," to lay, v.a. (pretr. "laid," part, passive "lain,"
from "liggan," Sax.), "to place along the ground."--Fenning's Royal Eng.