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"." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A46439.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2024.
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Xerxes, is represented in History, after a very Romantick Man∣ner; affecting Fame beyond Measure, and doing the most Extrava∣gant things, to compass it. Mount Athos made a Prodigious Promon∣tory in the AEgaean Sea: He is said to have cut a Channel through it, and to have Sail'd round it. He made a Bridge of Boats over the Hellespont, where it was three Miles broad: ••And order'd a Whipping for the Winds and Seas, because they had once crossed his Designs, as we have a very solemn account of it in Herodotus. But, after all these vain Boasts, he was shamefully beaten by Themistocles at Salamis; and return'd home, leaving most of his Fleet behind him.