Note 027
A critic will always distrust these spolia opima of
a victorious general, so difficult for valour to
obtain, so easy for flattery to invent, (Cantemir, p. 90,
91.) Callimachus (l. iii. p. 517) more simply and probably
affirms,
supervenitibus Janizaris, telorum multitudine, non
jam confossus est, quam obrutus.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 67