Francis Patrick Kenrick

The meaning of V. is that the protectors of the city were compelled to abandon its defence. I'D was taken for " wall" by all the ancient interpreters. 51oderns take it to be the proper name of a people of Me- dia. or Assyria, or of a country near the river Kur, which flows into the Caspian Sea. L. has, " Kir nn- covereth the shield." The leathern case in which it was preserved was removed, preparatory to its use.