[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
CHAPTER XLI: Conquests Of Justinian, Charact Of Balisarius
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35) Neapolim quasi Graecam urbem delegit.
One hundred and fifty years afterwards, in the time of Septimius Severus, the Hellenism of the Neapolitans is praised by Philostratus.
(Icon.l.i.p.763, edit.
Olear.)] [Footnote 66: The otium of Naples is praised by the Roman poets, by Virgil, Horace, Silius Italicus, and Statius, (Cluver.Ital.Ant.
l.
iv.p.1149, 1150.) In an elegant epistles, (Sylv.l.iii.5, p.
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