450-457,) with admirable good sense and scepticism betrays some secret disposition to extenuate the populousness of ancient times.] [Footnote 67: Olympiodor.ap.Phot.p.197.

See Fabricius, Bibl.

Graec.
tom.ix.p.

400.] [Footnote 68: In ea autem majestate urbis, et civium infinita frequentia, innumerabiles habitationes opus fuit explicare.

Ergo cum recipero non posset area plana tantam multitudinem in urbe, ad auxilium altitudinis aedificiorum res ipsa coegit devenire.Vitruv.ii.8.