Interea duplici texis dum littore classem
Inferno superoque mari, cadit omnis in aequor
Silva tibi, etc.
Sidon. Panegyr. Majorian. 441-461.
The number of ships, which Priscus fixes at 300, is magnified, by an indefinite comparison with the fleets of Agamemnon, Xerxes, and Augustus.