Note 094
Colloquia (whether real or fabulous) in media
Arabia atque ab Arabibus habita, (Lowth, de Poesi
Hebraeorum. Praelect. xxxii. xxxiii. xxxiv, with his German
editor, Michaelis, Epimetron iv.) Yet Michaelis (p. 671 -
673) has detected many Egyptian images, the elephantiasis,
papyrus, Nile, crocodile, &c. The language is ambiguously
styled Arabico-Hebraea. The resemblance of the sister
dialects was much more visible in their childhood, than in
their mature age, (Michaelis, p. 682. Schultens, in
Praefat. Job.)
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 50