Footnote 395: For _Silver_ the three North-Semitic languages, Assyrian, Aramaic, and Hebrew, have the same word, and in so far ‘form a strict union,’ as Schrader says, in opposition to the South-Semitic languages, which employ other words for the designation of this metal.' _Keilinschriften und das A. T._, p. 46. Footnote 396: Chârûṣ = gold has in recent times been frequently met with on Phenician territory, e.g. in the Inscription of Idalion published by Euting, II. 1, in the Inscription of Gebal (De Vogüé in the _Journal asiat._ 1875, I. 327), and in an unpublished Carthaginian Inscription (Derenbourg in _Journal asiat._ 1875, I. 336). Footnote 397: The consideration of the Hebrew cheres ‘Sun’ might suggest that both it and the old word for gold (chârûṣ), composed of possibly related sounds, both originated in the notion of _shining_. Footnote 398: Al-Maḳḳarî, _Analectes_, etc., Leyden edition, I. 369. 3. Footnote 399: Al-Jauharî, s.r. _kbr._ Footnote 400: Yâḳût, _Geogr. Dictionary_, II. 609. 8. Footnote 401: _Zur himjarischen Alterthumskunde_, in _Zeitsch. der D. M. G._, 1865, XIX. 247. Compare Halévy, _Etudes sabéennes_, in _Journal asiat._, 1874, II. 523. Footnote 402: Pseudowâḳidî, ed. Nassau Lees, p. 181. 6. Footnote 403: _Hist. de l’économie politique en Turquie_, in _Journal asiat._, 1864, I. 421. Compare also Sprenger, _Alte Geographie Arabiens_, p. 56. Footnote 404: The use of _black_ should also be noticed; dirhem saudâ and kara ġurush. Footnote 405: In _al-Thaʿâlibî_ in the _Zeitsch. der D. M. G._, 1854, VII. 505. Footnote 406: _Culturgeschichtliche Streifzüge_, p. xi. Footnote 407: Compare _Aġânî_, III. 90. 10. Fadaʿa bichâzinihi wa-ḳâla kam fî beyt mâlî faḳâla lahu min al-waraḳ w-al-ʿayn baḳîyyatun. Footnote 408: Thorbecke, _Antarah, ein vorislamischer Dichter_, Leipzig 1867, p. 41. Footnote 409: al-Ḥarîrî, Paris edition, 2nd ed., p. 467. Footnote 410: _Kitâb al-aġânî_, XVII. p. 11. Footnote 411: M.A. Levy in _Zeitschr. der D. M. G._, 1870, XXIV. p. 191. Footnote 412: Halévy, _ibid._ p. 539. Footnote 413: Freytag points this word urayḳ.—TR. Footnote 414: J. Levy, _Chaldäisches Wörterbuch_, I. 345. Footnote 415: ‘The Sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap; And, like a lobster boil’d, the Morn From black to red began to turn’— —says _Hudibras_, canto II. Footnote 416: In the Babyl. Talmûd, Yômâ 28. b, the falling of the shades of night is described as the time when meshacharê kôthâlê ‘the walls are black.’ Footnote 417: Called by Freytag an _eagle_.—TR. Footnote 418: