[68] If we review this general state of the Imperial forces; of the cavalry as well as infantry; of the legions, the auxiliaries, the guards, and the navy; the most liberal computation will not allow us to fix the entire establishment by sea and by land at more than four hundred and fifty thousand men: a military power, which, however formidable it may seem, was equalled by a monarch of the last century, whose kingdom was confined within a single province of the Roman empire.
[69] [Footnote 66: The Romans tried to disguise, by the pretence of religious awe their ignorance and terror.

See Tacit.

Germania, c.

34.] [Footnote 67: Plutarch, in Marc.Anton.

[c.