[Footnote 68: The praises of Dionysius are just and lively.
Syria, (in Periegesi, v. 902, in tom. iv. Geograph. Minor.
Hudson.) In another place he styles the country differently,
(v. 898.)
This poetical geographer lived in the age of Augustus, and
his description of the world is illustrated by the Greek
commentary of Eustathius, who paid the same compliment to
Homer and Dionysius, (Fabric. Bibliot. Graec. l. iv. c. 2,
tom. iii. p. 21, &c.)]