Note 96 — Chapter IX · EXCURSION ROUND THE STRAITS.
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As known to the Greeks, it was of the same dimensions. The exquisite beauty of that of Alcisthenis the Sybarite has preserved its description. It was fifteen cubits long, and was sold for one hundred and twenty talents, or nearly £30,000. The dye is Tyrian, the border of animals; the gods are in the centre, and Alcisthenis himself is at each end, and all this wrought in the loom.—Arist. de Mirab. xvi. 199; Athen. xii. 58.