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from the number of inhabitants contained in the town
of Santa Maura compared with its circumference*.
It is therefore probable that this single city contained
as many people as the whole island does at the pre-
sent day. Livy gives ample testimony of their
bravery, and the character of the ruins before us
corroborates his account fully f. The manner in
* Or if the number be calculated from the population of Thebes,
compared with the circumference of its walls, (vide Anacharsis, c. 35.
p. 247.) stated to be fifty thousand in forty-three stadia. Six thousand
four hundred and fifty-five paces at thirty inches, would be about
twenty-six stadia in round numbers, making the number of inhabi-
tants considerably more than twenty-five thousand. Or if we take
the number of inhabitants of Thebes, with Hume, (vide Populous-
ness of Ancient Nations,) at thirty-four thousand, and the circum-
ference forty-three stadia, we must conclude at the lowest that
Leucate contained seventeen thousand inhabitants.
f Leucade hsec sunt decreta, id caput Acarnaniae erat, eoque in
concilium omnes populi conveniebant. Itaque, cum haec repentina
mutatio Corcyram ad legatum Flaminium perlata esset, extemplo
cum classe profectus., Leucadem ad Herseum, quod vocant, naves
adplicuit. Inde cum omni genere tormentorum machinarumque,
quibus expugnantur urbes, ad muros accessit, ad primum terrorem
ratus inclinari animos posse. Postquam pacati nihil ostendebatur,
turn vineas turresque erigere, et arietem admovere muris coepit.
Acarnania uni versa, inter 2Etoliam atque Epirum posita, solem oc-
cidentem et mare Siculum spectat. Leucadia, nunc insula, et
vadoso freto, quod perfossum manu est, ab Acarnania divisa, turn
peninsula erat, occidentis regione arctis faucibus cohoerens Acarnaniae.
Quingentos ferme passus longae fauces erant; latae baud amplius
centum et viginti. In his angustiis Leucas posita est, colli adplicata
verso in orientem et Acarnaniam. Ima urbis plana sunt, jacentia
ad mare, quo Leucadia ab Acarnania dividitur, inde terra marique
expugnabilis est. Nam et vada sunt stagno similiora, quam mari:
from the number of inhabitants contained in the town
of Santa Maura compared with its circumference*.
It is therefore probable that this single city contained
as many people as the whole island does at the pre-
sent day. Livy gives ample testimony of their
bravery, and the character of the ruins before us
corroborates his account fully f. The manner in
* Or if the number be calculated from the population of Thebes,
compared with the circumference of its walls, (vide Anacharsis, c. 35.
p. 247.) stated to be fifty thousand in forty-three stadia. Six thousand
four hundred and fifty-five paces at thirty inches, would be about
twenty-six stadia in round numbers, making the number of inhabi-
tants considerably more than twenty-five thousand. Or if we take
the number of inhabitants of Thebes, with Hume, (vide Populous-
ness of Ancient Nations,) at thirty-four thousand, and the circum-
ference forty-three stadia, we must conclude at the lowest that
Leucate contained seventeen thousand inhabitants.
f Leucade hsec sunt decreta, id caput Acarnaniae erat, eoque in
concilium omnes populi conveniebant. Itaque, cum haec repentina
mutatio Corcyram ad legatum Flaminium perlata esset, extemplo
cum classe profectus., Leucadem ad Herseum, quod vocant, naves
adplicuit. Inde cum omni genere tormentorum machinarumque,
quibus expugnantur urbes, ad muros accessit, ad primum terrorem
ratus inclinari animos posse. Postquam pacati nihil ostendebatur,
turn vineas turresque erigere, et arietem admovere muris coepit.
Acarnania uni versa, inter 2Etoliam atque Epirum posita, solem oc-
cidentem et mare Siculum spectat. Leucadia, nunc insula, et
vadoso freto, quod perfossum manu est, ab Acarnania divisa, turn
peninsula erat, occidentis regione arctis faucibus cohoerens Acarnaniae.
Quingentos ferme passus longae fauces erant; latae baud amplius
centum et viginti. In his angustiis Leucas posita est, colli adplicata
verso in orientem et Acarnaniam. Ima urbis plana sunt, jacentia
ad mare, quo Leucadia ab Acarnania dividitur, inde terra marique
expugnabilis est. Nam et vada sunt stagno similiora, quam mari: