* 3.

He confounds myriads with chiliads, and gives Cantacuzene no more than 5000 hogs.

Put not your trust in translations! Note: * There seems to be another reading, ciliaiV.

Niebuhr's edit.

in loc .-- M.] Had the regent found a suitable return of obedience and gratitude, perhaps he would have acted with pure and zealous fidelity in the service of his pupil.