After a long and tedious conversation with the Byzantine declaimers, how refreshing is the truth, the simplicity, the elegance of an Attic writer!] [Footnote 118: See the long wall in Evagarius, (l.iv.c.

38.) This whole article is drawn from the fourth book of the Edifices, except Anchialus, (l.iii.c.

7.)] Asia Minor, after the submission of the Isaurians, [119] remained without enemies and without fortifications.

Those bold savages, who had disdained to be the subjects of Gallienus, persisted two hundred and thirty years in a life of independence and rapine.

The most successful princes respected the strength of the mountains and the despair of the natives; their fierce spirit was sometimes soothed with gifts, and sometimes restrained by terror; and a military count, with three legions, fixed his permanent and ignominious station in the heart of the Roman provinces.