[382] "Vend." 18, 23. [383] Herod. 1, 135, 136. [384] Plato, "Aloib. I."; p. 121. [385] Herod. 1, 137. [386] "Ethic. Nicom." 8, 10, ed. Zell. [387] Curt. 5, 9; Plut. "Artax." c. 5. [388] Ammian, 23, 6. [389] Herod. 3, 70, 88; Dinon. fragm. 17, ed. Müller; Ctes. "Pers. Ecl." 44. [390] Plut. "Themist." c. 26. [391] Herod. 3, 31; Diogen. Laert. Prooem. 6; Plut. "Artax." c. 26; Ctes. "Pers. Ecl." 44; Agathias, 2, 23; Heracl. Cum. fragm. 7 ed. Müller. [392] The regulations respecting sexual intercourse, abortion, etc., which here follow in the German text will be found in "Vend." 16, 33-40; 18, 100-122, 136, 152; _ib._ 15, 9-17, 60; 18, 115; _ib._ 18, 115-119; _ib._ 8, 74-82; _ib._ 8, 96-106. [393] "Rigveda," 10, 97, 17; "Atharvaveda," 2, 10, 2; 8, 1, 18 in Darmesteter _loc. cit._ 73, 76. [394] "Vend." 20, 19, 25. [395] "Vend." 22, 7-38. [396] "Vend." 21, 3-19. [397] Justi, "Bundehesh," c. 24. [398] West, "Mainyo-i-Khard," c. 62. Above, p. 172. [399] "Vend." 20, 11-20. [400] "Vend." 7, 118, 121. [401] "Vend." 7, 105, 117. [402] "H. N." 30, 1. [403] Von Gutschmid ("Das iranische Wandeljahr, Berichte der K. Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wiss." 1862) places the establishment of the cycle, by which, in order to bring the year of 365 days into agreement with the natural time, a month was inserted every 120 years, and consequently the introduction of the East Iranian calendar into the whole kingdom, in the year 411, or between 428 and 381 B.C. That the beginning of the year was universally placed in the spring after the introduction of this calendar, and fixed between March and the middle of June, would follow from the importance of the Farvardin festival, even if it were not sufficiently vouched for by other evidence. The Bundehesh (c. 25) speaks of the year as fixed, inasmuch as it reckons the shortening of the days from a certain day in the month of Tir, and puts the shortest day on the 20th of the month of Din, yet it adds that the priests reckoned on this basis, and that the lunar year did not correspond to the year thus calculated. The Cappadocian names for the months are those of the East Iranian calendar; and the Cappadocians cannot have obtained these till the calendar was current throughout the whole kingdom of the Achæmenids. On this ground also Von Gutschmid's dates do not seem to be too high. [404] "Vend." 1, 48; 6, 6 and _loc. cit._ [405] "Vend." 7, 65-71. [406] "Vend." 3, 122-136. [407] "Vend." 6, 93-95; 8, 13; 3, 50-54. [408] "Vend." 5, 13, 14, 47, 48. [409] "Vend." 6, 98 ff. [410] "Vend." 6, 106. [411] "Vend." 7, 126-147. [412] "Vend." 8, 34-36; 130-228. [413] "Vend." 8, 38-64. [414] "Vend." 8, 271-310; 9, 164-166. [415] "Vend." 5, 15-21, according to Geldner's rendering. [416] "Vend." 5, 1-22; 7, 189-191. [417] Herod. 1, 140; 3, 16. [418] Strabo, p. 517. [419] Strabo, p. 735. Cf. p. 520. [420] "Quaest. Tuscul." 1, 45. [421] Euseb. "Praep. Evang." p. 277. [422] Agath. 2, 23.