Note 026
From Chapter 59 of the Decline & Fall

The desire of comparing two great men has tempted many writers to drown Frederic in the River Cydnus, in which Alexander so imprudently bathed (Q. Curt. l. iii c. 4, 5). But, from the march of the emperor, I rather judge, that his Saleph is the Calycadnus, a stream of less fame, but of a longer course.

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