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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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738,) in Rosweyde's great Collection of the Vitae Patrum.
Tillemont (Mem.Eccles.tom.x.p.

718, 720) has settled the chronology.] [Footnote 114: Sozomen, l.vii.c.22.Claudian (in Eutrop.l.i.

312) mentions the eunuch's journey; but he most contemptuously derides the Egyptian dreams, and the oracles of the Nile.] [Footnote 1141]: Gibbon has embodied the picturesque verses of Claudian:-- ....

Nec tantis dissona linguis Turba, nec armorum cultu diversion unquam] [Footnote 115: Zosimus, l.iv.p.280.Socrates, l.vii.10.

Alaric himself (de Bell.


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