[144] {112}[Arimanes, the Aherman of _Vathek_, the Arimanius of Greek and Latin writers, is the Ahriman (or Angra Mainyu, "who is all death," the spirit of evil, the counter-creator) of the _Zend-Avesta_, "Fargard," i. 5 (translated by James Darmesteter, 1895, p. 4). Byron may have got the form Arimanius (_vide_ Steph., _Thesaurus_) from D'Herbelot, and changed it to Arimanes.] [145] [The "formidable Eblis" sat on a globe of fire--"in his hand ... he swayed the iron sceptre that causes ... all the powers of the abyss to tremble."--_Vathek_, by William Beckford, 1887, p. 178.] [bb] {112}_The comets herald through the burning skies_.--[Alternative reading in MS.] [146] {114}[Compare-- "Sorrow is Knowledge." Act I. sc. 1, line 10, _vide ante_, p. 85. Compare, too-- "Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son! 'All that we know is, nothing can be known.'" _Childe Harold_, Canto II. stanza vii. lines 1, 2, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 103.] [147] {115}[Astarte is the classical form (_vide_ Cicero, _De Naturâ Deorum_, iii. 23, and Lucian, _De Syriâ Deâ_, iv.) of Milton's "Moonéd Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen and mother both." Cicero says that she was married to Adonis, alluding, no doubt, to the myth of the Phoenician Astoreth, who was at once the bride and mother of Tammuz or Adonis.] [bc] {116}_Or dost Qy?_--[Marginal reading in MS.] [148] [Compare-- " ... illume With hectic light, the Hesperus of the dead, Of her consuming cheek the autumnal leaf-like red." _Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza cii. lines 7-9.] [149] {118}[Compare-- " ... a firm will, and a deep sense, Which even in torture can descry Its own concentered recompense." _Prometheus_, iii. 55-57, _vide ante_, p. 51.]