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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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Tillemont (Mem.Eccles.tom.viii.p.

491-527) has raked together all the dirt of the fathers; a useful scavenger!] [Footnote 52: Severus Sulpicius mentions the arch-heretic with esteem and pity Faelix profecto, si non pravo studio corrupisset optimum ingenium prorsus multa in eo animi et corporis bona cerneres.

(Hist.
Sacra, l ii.p.

439.) Even Jerom (tom.i.in Script.Eccles.p.

302) speaks with temper of Priscillian and Latronian.] [Footnote 53: The bishopric (in Old Castile) is now worth 20,000 ducats a year, (Busching's Geography, vol.ii.p.


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