Note 52
From Chapter 66 of the Decline & Fall

Syropulus (p. 63) simply expresses his intention:

Ancient Greek

and the Latin of Creyghton may afford a specimen of his florid paraphrase.

Ut pompâ circumductus noster Imperator Italiae populis aliquis deauratus Jupiter crederetur, aut Crœsus ex opulenta Lydia.