[Footnote 54: Ancient Greeketc. Julian Epist. xxiv.
p. 392. These splend& id epithets are occasioned by the figs
of Damascus, of which the author sends a hundred to his
friend Serapion, and this rhetorical theme is inserted by
Petavius, Spanheim, etc. (p. 390 396), among the genuine
epistles of Julian. How could they overlook that the writer
is an inhabitant of Damascus (he thrice affirms that this
peculiar fig grows only (Ancient Greek), a city which
Julian never entered Or approached?]