de la Milice Francoise, tom.i.

p.
17--21) has exhibited a fanciful representation of this battle, somewhat in the manner of the Chevalier Folard, the once famous editor of Polybius, who fashioned to his own habits and opinions all the military operations of antiquity.] [Footnote 52: Agathias (l.ii.p.

47) has produced a Greek epigram of six lines on this victory of Narses, which a favorably compared to the battles of Marathon and Plataea.

The chief difference is indeed in their consequences--so trivial in the former instance--so permanent and glorious in the latter.

Note: Not in the epigram, but in the previous observations--M.] [Footnote 53: The Beroia and Brincas of Theophanes or his transcriber (p.