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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XXX: Revolt Of The Goths
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Dei, v.23.Orosius, l.vii.c.

37, p.

567-571.

The two friends wrote in Africa, ten or twelve years after the victory; and their authority is implicitly followed by Isidore of Seville, (in Chron.p.713, edit.

Grot.) How many interesting facts might Orosius have inserted in the vacant space which is devoted to pious nonsense!] [Footnote 78: Franguntur montes, planumque per ardua Caesar Ducit opus: pandit fossas, turritaque summis Disponit castella jugis, magnoque necessu Amplexus fines, saltus, memorosaque tesqua Et silvas, vastaque feras indagine claudit.! Yet the simplicity of truth (Caesar, de Bell.Civ.iii.


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