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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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* Note: The Mausoleum of Theodoric, now Sante Maria della Rotonda, is engraved in D'Agincourt, Histoire de l'Art, p xviii.
of the Architectural Prints .-- M] [Footnote 108: This legend is related by Gregory I., (Dialog.iv.

36,) and approved by Baronius, (A.D.526, No.

28;) and both the pope and cardinal are grave doctors, sufficient to establish a probable opinion.] [Footnote 109: Theodoric himself, or rather Cassiodorus, had described in tragic strains the volcanos of Lipari (Cluver.

Sicilia, p.

406--410) and Vesuvius, (v 50.)].


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