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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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1184.) When the young emperor gave an entertainment, he fasted himself; he refused to see a handsome actress, &c.

Since he ordered his wild beasts to to be killed, it is ungenerous in Philostor (l.xi.c.

1) to reproach him with the love of that amusement.] [Footnote 104: Zosimus (l.iv.p.

275) praises the enemy of Theodosius.
But he is detested by Socrates (l.v.c.


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