[Footnote 94: Every passage and every fact that relates to
the isle, the city, and the colossus of Rhodes, are compiled
in the laborious treatise of Meursius, who has bestowed the
same diligence on the two larger islands of the Crete and
Cyprus. See, in the iiid vol. of his works, the Rhodus of
Meursius, (l. i. c. 15, p. 715 - 719.) The Byzantine
writers, Theophanes and Constantine, have ignorantly
prolonged the term to 1360 years, and ridiculously divide
the weight among 30,000 camels.]