_Yaçna_, I. 35, XVII. 22; _Khordavesta_, III. 49, VII. 4; Spiegel, _Die heiligen Schriften der Parsen_, III. 27: ‘The beautiful Dawn we praise; the brilliant, endowed with brilliant horses, who remembers men, remembers heroes, and is provided with splendour, with dwellings. The morning Dawn we praise; the cheering, endowed with fast horses.’ _Vendidad_, XXI. 20: ‘Rise up, O splendid Sun! with thy fast horses, and shine on the creatures.’ In the Sun’s Yast (it is the sixth), in almost every verse from the invocation to the end of the prayer, this epithet is applied to the Sun; and in the tenth Yast chariots and flaming horses are assigned to Mithra (see the references in Spiegel, _l. c._ III. xxv.). Footnote 323: A rough imitation of: Phöbus in der Sonnendroschke Peitschte seine Flammenrosse. _Atta Troll_, XXII. 1. Footnote 324: Schwartz, _Sonne, Mond und Sterne_, pp. 106–109. Footnote 325: According to Rawlinson this conception came from the Assyrians to the Persians. Put the learned explorer of Assyrian antiquity seems to ignore the solar significance of the winged disc when he says: ‘The conjecture is probable that ... the wings signify Omnipresence and the circle Eternity’ (_History of Herodotus_, note to I. c. 135, I. 215 of the edition of 1862). Footnote 326: Hebrew scholars will observe that I here abandon the usual interpretation, and understand eshkenâ in the second member of the setting of the sun. In this way the first member speaks of the rising, the second of the setting of the sun (= bâ hash-shemesh), which dips into the water at the further edge (horizon) of the sea (acharîth yâm). Footnote 327: See Excursus G. Footnote 328: _Iliad_, VIII. 485. See Plutarch, _De vita et poes. Hom._, c. CIII. Footnote 329: E.g. al-Suytûṭi in the _Ḥusn al-muḥâḍarâ_, &c: ‘fa iḏâ achaḏat fî-l-hubût’ (ap. Weyer’s _Diss. de loco Ibn Khacanis de Ibn Zeidun_, p. 87, n. 82). Footnote 330: The Sun is in all the Semitic as well as in many Aryan languages grammatically feminine, and the myths frequently assign to the Sun a female form. It is therefore necessary sometimes to use the feminine pronoun.—TR. Footnote 331: In Ahlwardt, _Chalaf al-aḥmar_, p. 49. I. See _Vita Timuri_, II. 48: ‘ḳad janaḥat al shams lil-ġurûb.’ Footnote 332: Compare Ps. XVII. 8, LXI. 5 [4]; and accordingly in tastîrêm besêther pânekhâ, Ps. XXXI. 21 [20], ‘thou hidest them in the hiding-place of thy _face_,’ we must emend pânekhâ ‘face,’ into kenâphekhâ ‘wings.’ Footnote 333: _Romance of ʿAntar_, V. 136 ult., 236 penult. In the Babylonian epos of _Istar’s Descent to Hell_, v. 10 (Lenormant, _Premières Civilisations_, II. 85), Night is compared to a bird. Footnote 334: