61, &c., 92.) The production, mines, &c., of emeralds, are involved in darkness; and it is doubtful whether we possess any of the twelve sorts known to the ancients, (Goguet, Origine des Loix, &c., part ii.l.ii.c.2, art.

3.) In this war the Huns got, or at least Perozes lost, the finest pearl in the world, of which Procopius relates a ridiculous fable.] [Footnote 134: The Indo-Scythae continued to reign from the time of Augustus (Dionys.Perieget.1088, with the Commentary of Eustathius, in Hudson, Geograph.Minor.tom.

iv.) to that of the elder Justin, (Cosmas, Topograph.Christ.l.xi.p.

338, 339.) On their origin and conquests, see D'Anville, (sur l'Inde, p.

18, 45, &c., 69, 85, 89.) In the second century they were masters of Larice or Guzerat.] [Footnote 1341: According to the Persian historians, he was misled by guides who used he old stratagem of Zopyrus.