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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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9, 10, 11, 21, ix.

8, 9.)] [Footnote 46: I cannot forbear transcribing the liberal and classic style of Count Marcellinus: Romanus comes domesticorum, et Rusticus comes scholariorum cum centum armatis navibus, totidemque dromonibus, octo millia militum armatorum secum ferentibus, ad devastanda Italiae littora processerunt, ut usque ad Tarentum antiquissimam civitatem aggressi sunt; remensoque mari in honestam victoriam quam piratico ausu Romani ex Romanis rapuerunt, Anastasio Caesari reportarunt, (in Chron.
p.

48.) See Variar.i.16, ii.

38.] [Footnote 47: See the royal orders and instructions, (Var.iv.15, v.
16--20.) These armed boats should be still smaller than the thousand vessels of Agamemnon at the siege of Troy.

(Manso, p.


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