69,) who speaks with diffidence, Larcher, (tom.i.p.

399--401, Notes sur Herodote,) Procopius, (Persic.l.i.c.

11,) and Agathias, (l.ii.p.61, 62.) This practice, agreeable to the Zendavesta, (Hyde, de Relig.Pers.c.34, p.
414--421,) demonstrates that the burial of the Persian kings, (Xenophon, Cyropaed.l.viii.p.

658,) is a Greek fiction, and that their tombs could be no more than cenotaphs.] [Footnote 8511: These seem the same people called Suanians, p.

328 .-- M.] The siege of Petra, which the Roman general, with the aid of the Lazi, immediately undertook, is one of the most remarkable actions of the age.