"Pliny gives us, in few words, a just idea of these pyramids, when he calls them a foolish and useless ostentation of the wealth of the Egyptian kings—Regum pecuniæ otiosa ac stulta ostentatio,—and adds, that, by a just punishment, their memory is buried in oblivion."[369]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Plutarch; Diodorus; Rollin; Sandwich.
[2] Pliny; Strabo; Plutarch; Diodorus; Wilkinson.
[3] Simon; Count Fedor de Karacray; Malte-Brun.
[4] "Ægina abounds," says Wheler, "with a sort of red-legged partridge, against which, by order of the Epitropi, or the chief magistrate of the town, all, both young and old, go out yearly, as the pigmies of old did against the cranes, to war with, and to break their eggs before they are hatched; otherwise, by their multitudes, they would so destroy and eat up the corn, that they would inevitably bring a famine every year upon the place."
[5] Mr. C. R. Cockerell and Mr. John Foster; W. Linckh and Baron Haller.
[6] Wheler; Chandler; Barthélemi; Sandwich; Lusieri; Clarke; Dodwell; Williams; Leake.
[7] Rollin.