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wquldhol have failed to mention ihcm, I concluded, there- 

 fore, with good reason, that these were the same gilt horses 

 •which the Venetians found in that place 800 years after 

 Theodosius H., and saved from destruction by taking theiu 

 to Venice. It is probable that Codinus has drawn this no- 

 tion from their inscription ; for he says that each statue of 

 the Circus had its inscription, which mentioned from what 

 city it had been carried off. 



The resemblance of these horses with those upon the 

 medal of Nero, can be no objection against the authority ot 

 Codinus. The antient world was so filled with similar works, 

 and the chefs d'eeuvres of the great inasters were so .ciftcn 

 imitated, that one quadrigse might often resemble another. 



The hie of Chio, at present called Scio, is situated be- 

 tween Samos and Lesbos. It prodxiccd the best wine in 

 •Greece ; it had a city of the same name, which was bounded 

 hy Mount Pellenus on the land side, and on the sea shore 

 there was a harbour which contained eighty vessels. All 

 these natural advantages induced the inhabitants to apply 

 early to navigation and commerce 5 they traded with the 

 Egyptians in the reign of king Arnasis, who permitted Greek 

 merchants to settle in Egypt, where they made, establish- 

 ments in common with the Rhodians, the Cnidians, the 

 inhabitants of Halicarnassus and Mytilcnc. 



In the war undertaken by the Greeks of Ionia against 

 Darius, the son of Hvstaspes, they furnished ninety ships. 

 In the naval engagement with the king's ships, the Lesbians, 

 the Samians, and all the others fied; but the inhabitants of 

 Chio preferred perishing rather than imitating the disgraceful 

 conduct of their allies ; at last, after having performed pro- 

 digies of valour, they gave way to the numerous;; fleet of the 

 Persians. Victims to their zeal for the common cause, they 

 were also crushed by the pcrtidy of their neighbours. His- 

 tius, of Lesbos, who had embraced the cause of Daiiiis, in 

 company with the Lesbians made a de-cent upon Chios, 

 attacked the people already enfeebled, killed an inuiiensc 

 nun)ber, and gave the island up to pillage. They were 

 never able to recover I'rom the efl'ects of tliesc disasins; for 

 we find thut in the war against Xerx( s, the son of Darius, 

 IJ 4 th( y 



