42. Besides these well-known examples, Tollius (Preface to
Boileau's translation of Longinus) has discovered a vision
of Antigonus, who assured his troops that he had seen a
pentagon (the symbol of safety) with these words, "In this
conquer." But Tollius has most inexcusably omitted to
produce his authority; and his own character, literary as
well as moral, is not free from reproach (see Chauffepie,
Dictionnaire Critique, tom. iv. p. 460). Without insisting
on the silence of Diodorus, Plutarch, Justin, etc., it may
be observed that Polyaenus, who in a separate chapter (1.
iv. c. 6) has collected nineteen military stratagems of
Antigonus, is totally ignorant of this remarkable vision.