Note 1 — Chapter I
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: Nestorians, whose "Catholicos" resided first at Ctesiphon, and afterwards at Mosul. VINCENT, Periplus, &c., vol. ii, p. 507. For an examination of the hypotheses based on this statement of Cosmas, see Sir J. EMERSON TENNENT'S History of Christianity in Ceylon, ch. i.
2: [Greek: "Leitourgiat,"] literally liturgy; which meant originally the pomp and ceremonial of worship as well as the form of prayer.