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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XXVII: Civil Wars, Reign Of Theodosius
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But the plebeian sisters have been defrauded of their equal honors; and what is still harder, John Trithemius presumes to mention the children of these British virgins.] [Footnote 14: Zosimus (l.iv.p.248, 249) has transported the death of Gratian from Lugdunum in Gaul (Lyons) to Singidunum in Moesia.

Some hints may be extracted from the Chronicles; some lies may be detected in Sozomen (l.vii.c.

13) and Socrates, (l.v.c.

11.) Ambrose is our most authentic evidence, (tom.i.Enarrat.in Psalm lxi.p.961, tom ii.
epist.xxiv.p.888 &c., and de Obitu Valentinian Consolat.Ner.28, p.
1182.)] [Footnote 15: Pacatus (xii.

28) celebrates his fidelity; while his treachery is marked in Prosper's Chronicle, as the cause of the ruin of Gratian.


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