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Plutarch means the Vexillum. Gall. ii. 20; Bell. Hispan. c. 28, Bell. The error may be owing to the copyists. Cn. His history of the Civil Wars was comprised in seventeen books. In saying that Pompeius "let his horse go," I have used an expression that may be misunderstood.
What is more worthy of note is the credulity with which he swallows the fabulous inventions of the "monkish chroniclers" when set before him in English earthenware. We would undertake, for a very trifling consideration, to furnish him with the Spanish originals of the stories of "Hispan" and "Hercules," and all the other absurdities with which his old folio has supplied him.
Some who had seen the descent of the flaming ball imagined that fire had fallen from heaven to punish them for their pertinacity. The pious Agapida himself believes that this fiery missive was conducted by divine agency to confound the infidels an opinion in which he is supported by other Catholic historians.* * Pulgar, Garibay; Lucio Marino Siculo, Cosas Memoral. de Hispan., lib.20.
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