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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XXVIII: Destruction Of Paganism
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Greaves's Miscellaneous Works, vol.i.p.

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The Egyptian cubit is about twenty-two inches of the English measure.

* Note: Compare Wilkinson's Thebes and Egypt, p.

313 .-- M.] The temples of the Roman empire were deserted, or destroyed; but the ingenious superstition of the Pagans still attempted to elude the laws of Theodosius, by which all sacrifices had been severely prohibited.


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