[Footnote 60: Abulpharagius, Dynast. p. 81, 222. Bibliot.
Arab. Hisp. tom. i. p. 370, 371. In quem (says the primate
of the Jacobites) si immiserit selector, oceanum hoc in
genere (algebrae) inveniet. The time of Diophantus of
Alexandria is unknown; but his six books are still extant,
and have been illustrated by the Greek Planudes and the
Frenchman Meziriac, (Fabric. Bibliot. Graec. tom. iv. p. 12
- 15.)]