Note 049

Interea duplici texis dum littore classem
Inferno superoque mari, cadit omnis in aequor
Silva tibi, etc.
Sidon. Panegyr. Majorian. 441-461.

The number of ships, which Priscus fixes at 300, is magnified, by an indefinite comparison with the fleets of Agamemnon, Xerxes, and Augustus.

The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 36