Note 024 Three hundred myriads, or three millions of medimni , a corn-measure familiar to the Athenians, and which contained six Roman modii . Julian explains, like a soldier and a statesman, the danger of his situation, and the necessity and advantages of an offensive war (ad S. P. Q. Athen. p. 286, 287).

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Note to Chapter 22 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon