52 ([return])
[ Juvenal, Richardson, etc. The preparations at Mount Athos commenced three years before Xerxes arrived at Sardis. (Compare Herod., l. vii. 21, with 33, 37.)
53 ([return])
[ Differently computed; according to Montfaucon, the sum total may be estimated at thirty-two millions of Louis d’ors.
54 ([return])
[ It must be confessed that the tears of Xerxes were a little misplaced. He wept that men could not live a hundred years, at the very moment when he meditated destroying a tolerable portion of them as soon as he possibly could.—Senec. de Brev. Vit., c. 17.
55 ([return])
[ Common also to the ancient Germans.
56 ([return])
[ For this reason—whoever died, whether by disease or battle, had his place immediately supplied. Thus their number was invariably the same.