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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XXXIX: Gothic Kingdom Of Italy
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112.) * Note: Le Beau and his Commentator, M.St.Martin, support, though with no very satisfactory evidence, the opposite opinion.

But Lord Mahon (Life of Belisarius, p.

19) urges the much stronger argument, the Byzantine education of Theodroic .-- M.] [Footnote 4: Statura est quae resignet proceritate regnantem, (Ennodius, p.

1614.) The bishop of Pavia (I mean the ecclesiastic who wished to be a bishop) then proceeds to celebrate the complexion, eyes, hands, &c, of his sovereign.] [Footnote 5: The state of the Ostrogoths, and the first years of Theodoric, are found in Jornandes, (c.

52--56, p.


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