[421] Titus Livius, XXXVII. 37. [422] Strabo, XVI. 2. [423] Polybius, V. 70. [424] Titus Livius, XXXIII. 41.--Polybius, V. 59.--Strabo, XVI. 2. [425] Strabo, XVI. 2. [426] Strabo, XIV. 5. [427] In 558, Antiochus sent to sea a hundred covered vessels and two hundred light ships. (Titus Livius, XXXIII. 19.)--It is the greatest Syrian fleet mentioned in these wars. At the battle of Myonnesus, the fleet commanded by Polyxenus was composed of ninety decked ships (574). (Appian, _Wars of Syria_, 27.)--In 563, before the final struggle against the Romans, that prince had forty decked vessels, sixty without decks, and two hundred transport ships. (Titus Livius, XXXV. 43.)--Finally, the next year, a little before the battle of Magnesia, Antiochus possessed, not including the Phœnician fleet, a hundred vessels of moderate size, of which seventy had decks. (Titus Livius, XXXVI. 43; XXXVII. 8.)--This navy was destroyed by the Romans. [428] Herodotus, II. 177.--Diodorus Siculus, I. 31. [429] A measure great enough to make thirty loaves. (Franz, _Corpus Inscript. Græcarum_, III. 303.--Polybius, V. 79.) [430] Böckh, _Staatshaushaltung der Athener_, I. xiv. 15. [431] Flavius Josephus, _Jewish Antiquities_, XII. 4. [432] Athenæus, V. p. 203. [433] Appian (_Preface_, § 10).--We may, nevertheless, judge from the following data of the enormity of the sums accumulated in the treasuries of the kings of Persia. Cyrus had gained, by the conquest of Asia, 34,000 pounds weight of gold coined, and 500,000 of silver. (Pliny, XXXIII. 15.)--Under Darius, son of Hystaspes, 7,600 Babylonian talents of silver (the Babylonian talent = 7,426 francs [£297]) were poured annually into the royal treasury, besides 140 talents devoted to the pay of the Cilician cavalry, and 360 talents of gold (14,680 talents of silver), paid by the Indies. (Herodotus, III. 94.)--This king had thus an annual revenue of 14,500 talents (108 millions of francs [£4,320,000]). Darius carried with him in campaign two hundred camels loaded with gold and precious objects. (Demosthenes, _On the Symmories_, p. 185, xv. p. 622, ed. Müller.)--Thus, according to Strabo, Alexander the Great found in the four great treasuries of that king (at Susa, Persia, Pasargades, and Persepolis) 180,000 talents (about 1,337 millions of francs [£53,480,000]). [434] Polybius, V. 89. [435] Strabo, XVII. 1. [436] Strabo, XVII. 1. [437] Strabo, XVI. 4; XVII. [438] Strabo, XVII. 1. [439] Diodorus Siculus, III. 43. [440] Appian, _Preface_, § 10.--In 537, at Raphia, the Egyptian army amounted to 70,000 foot, 5,000 cavalry, and 73 elephants. (Polybius, V. 79; see also V. 65.)--Polybius, who gives us these details, adds that the pay of the officers was one mina (97 francs [£3 17_s._ 7_d._]) a day. (XIII. ii.)