Yet only a few pages further we find Gibbon loudly condemning the French and Latin readers of Procopius.

Lord Mahon, p.403.The first of these errors remains uncorrected in the new edition of the Byzantines .-- M.] [Footnote 32: He was, if not an impostor, the son of the blind Zames, saved by compassion, and educated in the Byzantine court by the various motives of policy, pride, and generosity, (Procop.Persic.l.i.

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23.)] [Footnote 33: In the time of Augustus, and in the middle ages, the whole waste from Aquileia to Ravenna was covered with woods, lakes, and morasses.

Man has subdued nature, and the land has been cultivated since the waters are confined and embanked.

See the learned researches of Muratori, (Antiquitat.