For Plato, see the Politicus, p.

272, ed.

Stephani, cited in Ersch and Gruber, article Babylon.

For a good general statement, see Bible Myths, New York, 1883, chap.iii.For Aristotle's strange want of interest in any classification of the varieties of human speech, see Max Muller, Lectures on the Science of Language, London, 1864, series i, chap.

iv, pp.