[36]: The Septuagint rendering of David's message to Nabal explains the rapaciousness of the Arabs, and the forbearance of David. "Behold, I have heard that thy shepherds are now shearing for thee; they were with us in the wilderness, and we have not _hindered_ them, ουχ απεχωλυσαμεν, nor have we _commanded_ them ουχ ενετειλαμεθα all the days of their being in Carmel." "This," says Harmer, "is translating like people perfectly well acquainted with the management of the Arab emirs, whose manners David, though he lived in the wilderness as they did, had not adopted. One of them at the head of six hundred men, would have _commanded,_ from time to time, some provisions, or other present from Nabal's servants, for permitting them to feed in quiet; and would have driven them away from the watering-place upon any dislike. He had not done either." _Observations_, vol. i. p. 173. [37]: Young's Centaur, p. 119. [38]: JOSEPHUS, Book viii. ch. 5, [39]: Voyage up the Red Sea, and Route through the Desarts of Thebais. [40]: Harmer's Observations, vol. iv. p. 192, 193. [41]: From the _Arabian Anthologia_, quoted by SCHULTENS. [42]: Shaw's Travels, p. 214-317, quoted in Harmer's Observations, vol. i. p. 251. [43]: Comp. Harmer's Observations, vol. ii. p. 503. [44]: Plutarch's Life of Pyrrhus. [45]: Epitaph in Bunhill Fields burying-ground on a child that died at the age of nine months. The writer of these pages knows not the author, or whether these lines have ever appeared in any other place than on the stone whence he has transcribed them. [46]: HARMER'S Observations, vol. i. p 4. [47]: The first day of the month was kept with burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. Vide Numb. x. 10. and xxviii. 11. In imitation of the Jews, the calends, or first days of the month, and the fourth and seventh of the week, were sacred to Deity. [48]: PASCAL'S Thoughts, pp. 229, 244. [49]: See The Life of Philip Melancthon, by the author of this work, p. 225, second edition.