[Footnote 26: The desire of comparing two great men has
tempted many writers to drown Frederic in the River Cydnus,
in which Alexander so imprudently bathed, (Q. Curt. l. iii
c. 4, 5.) But, from the march of the emperor, I rather
judge, that his Saleph is the Calycadnus, a stream of less
fame, but of a longer course.]