Note 024
In these seas Procopius searched without
success for the Isle of Calypso. He was shown, at Phaeacia,
or Cocyra, the petrified ship of Ulysses, (Odyss. xiii.
163;) but he found it a recent fabric of many stones,
dedicated by a merchant to Jupiter Cassius, (l. iv. c. 22.)
Eustathius had supposed it to be the fanciful likeness of a
rock.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 43