[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 XLIII: Last Victory And Death Of Belisarius, Death Of Justinian 20/48
4,) already vacant in Juvenal's time, (Satir.
iii.,) and now in ruins.] [Footnote 46: Agathias (l.i.c.
21) settles the Sibyl's cave under the wall of Cumae: he agrees with Servius, (ad.l.vi.
Aeneid.;) nor can I perceive why their opinion should be rejected by Heyne, the excellent editor of Virgil, (tom.ii.p.650, 651.) In urbe media secreta religio! But Cumae was not yet built; and the lines (l.vi.96, 97) would become ridiculous, if Aeneas were actually in a Greek city.] [Footnote 47: There is some difficulty in connecting the 35th chapter of the fourth book of the Gothic war of Procopius with the first book of the history of Agathias.
We must now relinquish the statesman and soldier, to attend the footsteps of a poet and rhetorician, (l.i.
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