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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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The fourteenth, twenty-seventh, and thirty-second Orations were pronounced in the several stages of this business.

The peroration of the last, (tom.i.p.

528,) in which he takes a solemn leave of men and angels, the city and the emperor, the East and the West, &c., is pathetic, and almost sublime.] [Footnote 46: The whimsical ordination of Nectarius is attested by Sozomen, (l.vii.c.

8;) but Tillemont observes, (Mem.Eccles.tom.


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