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CHAPTER L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants
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76-78, 301-304.) Sanchoniatho derives the Phoenician sacrifices from the example of Chronus; but we are ignorant whether Chronus lived before, or after, Abraham, or indeed whether he lived at all.] [Footnote 51: The reproach of Porphyry; but he likewise imputes to the Roman the same barbarous custom, which, A.U.

C.657, had been finally abolished.

Dumaetha, Daumat al Gendai, is noticed by Ptolemy (Tabul.
p.

37, Arabia, p.

9-29) and Abulfeda, (p.


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