Note 155
From Chapter 21 of the Decline & Fall

We are ignorant of the precise situation of Mantinium. In speaking of these four bands of legionaries, Socrates, Sozomen, and the author of the Acts of St. Paul, use the indefinite terms of Ancient Greek which Nicephorus very properly translates thousands. Vales. ad. Socrat. l. ii. c. 38.

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