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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XLI: Conquests Of Justinian, Charact Of Balisarius
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The march of Belisarius dispelled this visionary pride; and as the first campaign [62] was employed in the reduction of Sicily, the invasion of Italy is applied by Procopius to the second year of the Gothic war.

[63] [Footnote 60: The ancient Alba was ruined in the first age of Rome.

On the same spot, or at least in the neighborhood, successively arose.

1.
The villa of Pompey, &c.; 2.

A camp of the Praetorian cohorts; 3.


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