[Footnote 8: See the preface of Procopius.

The enemies of archery might quote the reproaches of Diomede (Iliad.Delta.385, &c.) and the permittere vulnera ventis of Lucan, (viii.

384:) yet the Romans could not despise the arrows of the Parthians; and in the siege of Troy, Pandarus, Paris, and Teucer, pierced those haughty warriors who insulted them as women or children.] [Footnote 9: (Iliad.Delta.

123.) How concise--how just--how beautiful is the whole picture! I see the attitudes of the archer--I hear the twanging of the bow.] [Footnote 10: The text appears to allow for the largest vessels 50,000 medimni, or 3000 tons, (since the medimnus weighed 160 Roman, or 120 avoirdupois, pounds.) I have given a more rational interpretation, by supposing that the Attic style of Procopius conceals the legal and popular modius, a sixth part of the medimnus, (Hooper's Ancient Measures, p.

152, &c.) A contrary and indeed a stranger mistake has crept into an oration of Dinarchus, (contra Demosthenem, in Reiske Orator.