[Footnote 95: After some figures of rhetoric, the sands of
the sea, &c., Procopius (Anecdot. c. 18) attempts a more
definite account; that it had been exterminated under the
reign of the Imperial demon. The expression is obscure in
grammar and arithmetic and a literal interpretation would
produce several millions of millions Alemannus (p. 80) and
Cousin (tom. iii. p. 178) translate this passage, "two
hundred millions:" but I am ignorant of their motives. The
remaining myriad of myriads, would furnish one hundred
millions, a number not wholly inadmissible.]