"After this," so we find it in Polyhistor, "Berosus enumerates the names of 45 kings separately, and allotted to them 526 years.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
But the passage for which beyond all others we must make room, is a series of eight lines, corresponding to six in the original; and this for two reasons: First, Because Dr. Joseph Warton has deliberately asserted, that in our whole literature, "we have scarcely eight more beautiful lines than these;" and though few readers will subscribe to so sweeping a judgment, yet certainly these must be wonderful lines for a boy, which could challenge such commendation from an experienced Polyhistor of infinite reading.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
54; Polyhistor, 255 n.
"The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism"
Franz Cumont