Note 057
Pocock, (Specimen, p. 138 - 146,) Hottinger,
(Hist. Orient. p. 162 - 203,) Hyde, (de Religione Vet.
Persarum, p. 124, 128, &c.,) D'Herbelot (Sabi, p. 725,
726,) and Sale, (Preliminary Discourse, p. 14, 15,) rather
excite than gratify our curiosity; and the last of these
writers confounds Sabianism with the primitive religion of
the Arabs.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 50