Note 064
From Chapter 56 of the Decline & Fall

Ancient Greeksays Anna Comnena (Alexias, l. i. p. 37;) and her account tallies with the number and lading of the ships.

Ivit in Dyrrachium cum XV millibus hominum,

says the Chronicon Breve Normannicum (Muratori, Scriptores, tom. v. p. 278). I have endeavoured to reconcile these reckonings.

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