xxxiii.
24)] [Footnote 51: The history of the reformation affords frequent examples of the sudden change from superstition to contempt.] [Footnote 52: Sozomen, l.vii.c.20.I have supplied the measure.

The same standard, of the inundation, and consequently of the cubit, has uniformly subsisted since the time of Herodotus.

See Freret, in the Mem.

de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom.xvi.p.

344-353.