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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XLIII: Last Victory And Death Of Belisarius, Death OF Justinian
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22,) the gallery of Aeneas, of a single rank of oars, 25 feet in breadth, 120 in length, was preserved entire in the navalia, near Monte Testaceo, at the foot of the Aventine, (Nardini, Roma Antica, l.vii.c.9, p.466.Donatus, Rom Antiqua, l.iv.c.13, p.

334) But all antiquity is ignorant of relic.] [Footnote 24: In these seas Procopius searched without success for the Isle of Calypso.

He was shown, at Phaeacia, or Cocyra, the petrified ship of Ulysses, (Odyss.xiii.

163;) but he found it a recent fabric of many stones, dedicated by a merchant to Jupiter Cassius, (l.iv.c.

22.) Eustathius had supposed it to be the fanciful likeness of a rock.] [Footnote 25: M.D'Anville (Memoires de l'Acad.


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