[Footnote 27: A critic will always distrust these spolia
opima of a victorious general, so difficult for valor to
obtain, so easy for flattery to invent, (Cantemir, p. 90,
91.) Callimachus (l. iii. p. 517) more simply and probably
affirms, supervenitibus Janizaris, telorum multitudine, non
jam confossus est, quam obrutus.]