Footnote

e See Xenophon’s Cyropædia (Education of Cyrus), Book 7, paragraphs 1, 4. Says The Encyclopædia Britannica, eleventh edition, Volume 10, page 454b: “The Persians bore an eagle fixed to the end of a lance, and the sun, as their divinity, was also represented upon their standards, which . . . were guarded with the greatest jealousy by the bravest men of the army.”—See under the heading “Flag.”