Note 057
From Chapter 50 of the Decline & Fall


Pocock, (Specimen, p. 138 - 146,) Hottinger, (Hist. Orient. p. 162 - 203,) Hyde, (de Religione Vet. Persarum, p. 124, 128, etc.,) D'Herbelot (Sabi, p. 725, 726,) and Sale, (Preliminary Discourse, p. 14, 15,) rather excite than gratify our curiosity; and the last of these writers confounds Sabianism with the primitive religion of the Arabs.

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