Note 035 Dion, 1. lxxvii. p. 1307. Herodian, 1. iv. p. 158. The former represents it as a cruel massacre, the latter as a perfidious one too. It seems probable, that the Alexandrians had irritated the tyrant by their railleries, and perhaps by their tumults.

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Note to Chapter 6 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon