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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople
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These were registered in the same cataster (capitastrum) with the land tax.

It was paid by the proprietor, who raised it again from his coloni and laborers .-- M.] [Footnote 181: Geryones nos esse puta, monstrumque tributum, Hic capita ut vivam, tu mihi tolle tria.
Sidon.Apollinar.Carm.

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The reputation of Father Sirmond led me to expect more satisfaction than I have found in his note (p.

144) on this remarkable passage.

The words, suo vel suorum nomine, betray the perplexity of the commentator.] [Footnote 182: This assertion, however formidable it may seem, is founded on the original registers of births, deaths, and marriages, collected by public authority, and now deposited in the Controlee General at Paris.


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