Note 68 — Chapter I · CIVIL AND MILITARY ARCHITECTURE.
Walter Armstrong translation
See Oppert, Expédition &c., vol. i. pp. 184, 185. Herodotus mentions these quays (ii. 180, 186). Diodorus (ii. viii. 3), gives them a length of 160 stades (nearly 18½ miles), which seems a great exaggeration.