That treatise has been lately published, translated, and illustrated, by M.Dupuys, a scholar and a mathematician, (Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom xlii p.
392--451.)] [Footnote 98: In the siege of Syracuse, by the silence of Polybius, Plutarch, Livy; in the siege of Constantinople, by that of Marcellinus and all the contemporaries of the vith century.] [Footnote 99: Without any previous knowledge of Tzetzes or Anthemius, the immortal Buffon imagined and executed a set of burning-glasses, with which he could inflame planks at the distance of 200 feet, (Supplement a l'Hist.

Naturelle, tom.i.

399--483, quarto edition.) What miracles would not his genius have performed for the public service, with royal expense, and in the strong sun of Constantinople or Syracuse ?] [Footnote 100: John Malala (tom.ii.p.

120--124) relates the fact; but he seems to confound the names or persons of Proclus and Marinus.] [Footnote 101: Agathias, l.v.p.

149--152.