Note 032
From Chapter 53 of the Decline & Fall

The Byzantine palace surpasses the Capitol, the palace of Pergamus, the Rufinian wood Ancient Greek the temple of Adrian at Cyzicus, the pyramids, the Pharus, etc., according to an epigram (Antholog. Graec. l. iv. p. 488, 489. Brodaei, apud Wechel) ascribed to Julian, ex-praefect of Egypt. Seventy-one of his epigrams, some lively, are collected in Brunck, (Analect. Graec. tom. ii. p. 493 - 510; but this is wanting.

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