285.] There came also, day not given, a Captain Guichard ("Major Quintus Icilius" that is to be) with his new Book on the Art Military of the Ancients, MEMOIRES MILITAIRES SUR LES GRECS ET LES ROMAINS; [a La Haye, 2 tomes, 4to, 1757 (Nicolai, _Anekdoten,_ vi.

134)] which cannot but be welcome to Friedrich.

A solid account of that matter, by the first man who ever understood both War and Greek.

Far preferable to Folard's, a man without Greek at all, and with military ideas not a little fantastic here and there.

Of Captain Guichard, were his Book once read, and himself a little known, there will be more to say.