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war against the Alani. Many learned men, as Ramusius, 

 Ortelius, and others, have doubted whether lie wrote the Peri- 

 plus of the Erythrean Sea, which sometimes passes under his 

 name ; indeed the late Dean of Westminster says positively 

 " it is not the work of Arrian of Nicomedia :" but his claim to 

 the Circumnavigation of the Euxine has never been disputed. 

 It was compiled expressly for the Emperor ; who, according to 

 Spartian and Dion Cassius, was particularly attached to geo- 

 graphical research, and had visited in person a large portion of 

 his extensive dominions — " orbem Romanorum circumivit." Eutropii L. 



VIII. 



The elder Xenophon is spoken of, sub initio, by our scientific 

 geographer, in the same relative terms, as in the Cynegeticus, 

 wg Aeyej 6 Ssvo(pcuv Ixslvoj, and it is fair to infer that the Periplus 

 and Cynegeticus are the works of the same individual. 



In his Tactics, written, as he states himself, in the 20th year of Arnam Tacuca. 



' ^ ' -J Sub fine. 



the reign of Hadrian, there is a brief account of former writers on 

 this subject, and a description of the order and arrangement of 

 an army in general : but in the " Acies contra Alanos," a short 

 and imperfect fragment annexed thereto, the particular instruc- 

 tions,^ which were delivered by him as general, for the march 

 of the Roman army against the northern barbarians, are mi- 

 nutely given. 



Fragments of other historical works, supposed to have been 

 written by him, are preserved by the learned and indefatigable 

 patriarch of Constantinople — " The History of Events subse- 

 quent to Alexander's Death, in 10 books," " The Parthica, in 

 17 books," and " Bithynica, in 8 books." Under the review 

 of the first of which works, the Byzantine has left us his opi- 



1. These instructions are written, as military orders, in tlie imperative mood. 'O 

 5e riyeiJ-iiv rrjs vdaris arpartas 'aevo<pup, rh iroXh fieu irph tccv arifieluv twv irf^iKuv 

 TiydaBu, iirKpoirdTCi) 6e iro(rjj ry rd^et, K. t. A. Such were some of tlie duties which 

 he enjoined on himself as commaader-in-cliief. 



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