[Footnote 49: Phranza relates two examples of a similar
transportation over the six miles of the Isthmus of Corinth;
the one fabulous, of Augustus after the battle of Actium;
the other true, of Nicetas, a Greek general in the xth
century. To these he might have added a bold enterprise of
Hannibal, to introduce his vessels into the harbor of
Tarentum, (Polybius, l. viii. p. 749, edit. Gronov.)
Note: Von Hammer gives a longer list of such
transportations, p. 533. Dion Cassius distinctly relates the
occurrence treated as fabulous by Gibbon. - M.]