550, 615.) The conversation of Xerxes and Demaratus at Thermopylae is one of the most interesting and moral scenes in history.

It was the torture of the royal Spartan to behold, with anguish and remorse, the virtue of his country.] [Footnote 2: See this proud inscription in Pliny, (Hist.Natur.

vii.
27.) Few men have more exquisitely tasted of glory and disgrace; nor could Juvenal (Satir.

x.) produce a more striking example of the vicissitudes of fortune, and the vanity of human wishes.] [Footnote 3: This last epithet of Procopius is too nobly translated by pirates; naval thieves is the proper word; strippers of garments, either for injury or insult, (Demosthenes contra Conon Reiske, Orator, Graec.
tom.ii.p.

1264.)] [Footnote 4: See the third and fourth books of the Gothic War: the writer of the Anecdotes cannot aggravate these abuses.] [Footnote 5: Agathias, l.v.p.157, 158.