[182] The Island of Roses.
[183] See that beautiful chapter in the Wisdom of Solomon.
[184] A broken column on the shore is spoken of by early writers, supposed to have been a relic of the earliest ages.
[185] See the 45th chapter of Isaiah.
[186] The classical reader will remember the farewell of Philoctates to his solitary cave in Lemnos.
[187] He published, it is true, one edict against the increase of the Jews and Christians in the empire.