405--416,) and immoderately praised by the late ingenious Mr.Harris of Salisbury, (Philological Inquiries, p.iii.c.5, p.

301--312.)] [Footnote 96: To illustrate the statue of Hercules, Mr.Harris quotes a Greek epigram, and engraves a beautiful gem, which does not, however, copy the attitude of the statue: in the latter, Hercules had not his club, and his right leg and arm were extended.] [Footnote 97: I transcribe these proportions, which appear to me inconsistent with each other; and may possibly show, that the boasted taste of Nicetas was no more than affectation and vanity.] [Footnote 98: Nicetas in Isaaco Angelo et Alexio, c.

3, p.359.

The Latin editor very properly observes, that the historian, in his bombast style, produces ex pulice elephantem.] [Footnote 99: In two passages of Nicetas (edit.

Paris, p.360.