Note 106
See Herodotus (l. ii. c. 123) and our learned
countryman Sir John Marsham, (Canon. Chronicus, p. 46.) The
same writer (p. 254 - 274) is an elaborate sketch of the
infernal regions, as they were painted by the fancy of the
Egyptians and Greeks, of the poets and philosophers of
antiquity.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 50