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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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Sacrilegii enim instar est dubitare, an is dignus sit, quem elegerit imperator.
Codex Justinian, l.ix.tit.xxix.leg.

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This convenient law was revived and promulgated, after the death of Gratian, by the feeble court of Milan.] [Footnote 4: Ambrose composed, for his instruction, a theological treatise on the faith of the Trinity: and Tillemont, (Hist.

des Empereurs, tom.v.p.158, 169,) ascribes to the archbishop the merit of Gratian's intolerant laws.] [Footnote 5: Qui divinae legis sanctitatem nesciendo omittunt, aut negligende violant, et offendunt, sacrilegium committunt.

Codex Justinian.l.ix.tit.xxix.


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