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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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615, 616, 617,) Lucas Holstenius, (Annotat.

ad Cluver.p.

85, 86,) Guazzesi, (Dissertat.p.

177--217, a professed inquiry,) and the maps of the ecclesiastical state and the march of Ancona, by Le Maire and Magini.] [Footnote 36: The battle was fought in the year of Rome 458; and the consul Decius, by devoting his own life, assured the triumph of his country and his colleague Fabius, (T.Liv.x.

28, 29.) Procopius ascribes to Camillus the victory of the Busta Gallorum; and his error is branded by Cluverius with the national reproach of Graecorum nugamenta.] [Footnote 3611: "Dog, wilt thou strike thy Lord ?" was the more characteristic exclamation of the Gothic youth.Procop.lib.iv.


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