Note 026 Ancient Greek

&c. Oyster shells were plentifully strewed on the sea-beach before the Caesareum. I may therefore prefer the literal sense, without rejecting the metaphorical version of tegulae, tiles, which is used by M. de Valois. I am ignorant, and the assassins were probably regardless, whether their victim was yet alive.

The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 47