Plutarchi _Fragmenta et Spuria_, ed. Fr. Dübner, in F. Didot’s Collection, Paris 1855, p. 83. Footnote 492: _Lettres assyriologiques et épigraphiques_, Paris 1872, II. fifth letter. Footnote 493: Müller, _History of Sanskrit Literature_, p. 530; _Chips_, &c., II. 163 _et seq._; Fiske, _Myths_, p. 113. Footnote 494: Schoolcraft, _Historical and Statistical Information respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes_, 1851, II. 136. Footnote 495: See Geiger, _Jüd. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Leben_, vol. VIII. p. 285. Breslau 1869. Footnote 496: Kuenen (in his _Religion of Israel_, I. 111 in the translation) expresses the opinion that only the degree of mutual relationship between the fathers of tribes was a later idea: that, e.g. the less noble tribes were called sons of Jacob’s slave-girls, and those that were bound together by closer fraternal feelings were regarded as sons of the same mother. Compare now also Zunz, _Gesammelte Schriften_, Berlin 1875, I. 268. Footnote 497: There still remain some names whose etymological explanation is difficult, as Reʾûbhên and Shimʿôn. Yissâsekhâr (Issachar) translated literally might be ‘the Day-labourer,’ certainly a fitting designation for the Sun, expressing how he does his day’s work, like a day-labourer. Yet I cannot look upon that as a mythical description, because it would be an unpardonable anachronism to suppose that that primeval age when myths were created would speak of day-labourers, especially after the fashion in which the idea is expressed by the word Yissâ-sekhâr, ‘he takes up his _wages_.’ Footnote 498: Which according to al-Damîrî, _Ḥayât al-ḥaywân_, Bûlâḳ 1274, II. 219, is used only of the rising sun; we can say ṭalaʿat al-ġazâlâ ‘the gazelle rises,’ but not ġarabat ‘he sets.’ Abû Saʿîd al-Rustamî the poet (in Behâ al-Dîn al-ʿÂmilî, _Keshkûl_, p. 164. 13) carries out the mythological figure still further, using the verb naṭaḥa ‘to butt,’ said of horned beasts. Describing a fine building, he says tanâṭaḥa ḳarna-sh-shamsi min sharafâtihi, that ‘as to splendour it butts in rivalry with the sun’—as if the palace and the sun were knocking their horns together. Footnote 499: _Babyl. Tract. Yômâ_, fol. 29. a: ‘As the hind’s horns branch out to every side, so also the light of dawn spreads out to all sides.’ Footnote 500: _Journal asiatique_, 1861, II. 437. Footnote 501: Caussin de Perceval, _Essai sur l’histoire des Arabes avant l’Islamisme_, I. 260. Footnote 502: Given in the Appendix to this work. Footnote 503: