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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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5) is interpreted to mean the Virgin Mary.] [Footnote 33: Tillemont (Mem.Eccles.tom.ix.p.

432, &c.) diligently collects, enlarges, and explains, the oratorical and poetical hints of Gregory himself.] [Footnote 34: He pronounced an oration (tom.i.Orat.xxiii.p.

409) in his praise; but after their quarrel, the name of Maximus was changed into that of Heron, (see Jerom, tom.i.in Catalog.Script.Eccles.

p.
301).

I touch slightly on these obscure and personal squabbles.] [Footnote 35: Under the modest emblem of a dream, Gregory (tom.


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