Note: The practical illustration of the possibility of Leander's feat by Lord Byron and other English swimmers is too well known to need particularly reference--M.] [Footnote 17: See the seventh book of Herodotus, who has erected an elegant trophy to his own fame and to that of his country.

The review appears to have been made with tolerable accuracy; but the vanity, first of the Persians, and afterwards of the Greeks, was interested to magnify the armament and the victory.

I should much doubt whether the invaders have ever outnumbered the men of any country which they attacked.] [Footnote 17a: Gibbon does not allow greater width between the two nearest points of the shores of the Hellespont than between those of the Bosphorus; yet all the ancient writers speak of the Hellespontic strait as broader than the other: they agree in giving it seven stadia in its narrowest width, (Herod.

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