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103.
104.
comparing it with the allied
army at Platae, thinks it so
large as to prove the entire
falsehood of the whole story;
and his reasonings and calculations
are, for their curiosity,
well worth a careful perusal."—Coleridge,
p. 211, sq.
The mention of Corinth is an
anachronism, as that city was
called Ephyre before its capture
by the Dorians. But Velleius,
vol. i. p. 3, well observes,
that the poet would naturally
speak of various towns and cities
by the names by which they
were known in his own time.
"Adam, the goodliest
man of men since born,
His sons, the fairest of
her daughters Eve.'