[79] “Xenophon’s _Hellenica_ is one of the most corrupt among ancient works; the text is in a very bad condition, and requires a most thorough critical revision; the history itself, though bad, is indispensable to us. In the fifth book, he states that Olynthus had 800 hoplites and an equal number of peltasts, but this is impossible. It has been proposed to read 8000, but this is too much, and is, moreover, not plausible, as the numbers were written in the characters of the alphabet. Demosthenes speaks of 5000 hoplites; his expression πόλις μυρίανδρος only signifies a large town in general.” [80] In Thucydides i. 94 and 128, we have Βυζάντιον without the article.—ED. [81] _Ausführl. Griech. Gram._, vol. ii. p. 428, foll. 2nd edit. [82] “Thus we find mention of a Roman Church _S. Agnolo in Pescivendolo_ in an ancient chronicle [in the _Beschreib. der Stadt Rom_, iii. 3, p. 468, this is referred to the history of Cola di Rienzi, which was formerly ascribed to Fortefiocca], and that church is now called _S. Angelo in Pescaria_; there must have been a fish-market in the neighbourhood. _Piscivendulus_ is unquestionably an ancient Latin word, in which the termination _ulus_ is purely an adjective termination without the meaning of a diminutive, as we sometimes find in Plautus.” [One otherwise very good MS. here has the word _nuculendulus_, for which I am unable to restore the correct word, unless _nucifrangibula_ (Plaut. _Bacch._ iv. 2, 16) be meant]. [83] Niebuhr has discussed this same subject in an advertisement about the progress of the edition of the _Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae_, which was published in the 4th vol. of the _Rhein. Museum_, and was directed against Professor Heinrich, who had censured the form _Byzantinae_.—ED. [84] The inscription of Protogenes; see _Kleine Schrift._, vol. i. p. 382, foll.—ED. [85] “In consequence of the numerous Milesian colonies on the Euxine, M. Von Köppen has brought forward the strange hypothesis, that the Milesians were a nation on the coast of the Euxine, who founded the colony of Miletus. Being a native of Russia, he perhaps wanted to gratify his Russian patriotism, by assigning a Russian origin to so important a Greek city.” [86] Reprinted in _Kleine Schriften_, vol. ii. p. 224. [87] _Hist. of Rome_, vol. i. p. 25, foll. [88] The name is wanting, and I am unable to supply it.—ED. [89] _Hist. of Rome_, vol. iii. p. 456.