[Footnote 98: According to the testimony of Philistus and
Diodorus, the tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse could maintain a
standing force of 10,000 horse, 100,000 foot, and 400
galleys. Compare Hume, (Essays, vol. i. p. 268, 435,) and
his adversary Wallace, (Numbers of Mankind, p. 306, 307.)
The ruins of Agrigentum are the theme of every traveller,
D'Orville, Reidesel, Swinburne, &c.]