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CHAPTER XXVII: Civil Wars, Reign Of Theodosius
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ci.) appoints him governor at Britain; and the father of our antiquities is followed, as usual, by his blind progeny.

Pacatus and Zosimus had taken some pains to prevent this error, or fable; and I shall protect myself by their decisive testimonies.

Regali habitu exulem suum, illi exules orbis induerunt, (in Panegyr.Vet.xii.

23,) and the Greek historian still less equivocally, (Maximus) (l.iv.p.

248.)] [Footnote 12: Sulpicius Severus, Dialog.ii.7.Orosius, l.vii.


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