Al Wakidi had likewise composed a separate history of the conquest of Egypt, which Mr. Ockley could never procure; and his own inquiries (vol. i. 344 - 362) have added very little to the original text of Eutychius, (Annal. tom. ii. p. 296 - 323, vers. Pocock,) the Melchite patriarch of Alexandria, who lived three hundred years after the revolution.