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A Tory Governor-General is not very likely to agree with me about the very important law reforms which I am about to bring before the Council. But he is not likely to treat me ill personally; or, if he does, all ou ti khairon, en tod orthothe Belos, as Philoctetes says.
The "paintings in the temple of Belos," described by Berosus, were in all probability carried out in the same way. They decorated the walls of the great temple of Bel Merodach at Babylon, where "all kinds of marvellous monsters with the greatest variety in their forms" were to be seen.
A similar connexion of meaning may be found in the Greek word 'belos, which corresponds to our 'telum, and which is derived from 'ballesthai, to throw, as we learn from Xenophon, who writes, 'they carried with them 'belei, namely spears, bows and arrows, slings, and large numbers of stones. 'Sicarius, or assassin, is derived from 'sica, a long steel knife.
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