[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 XXXIX: Gothic Kingdom Of Italy 6/54
p. 140--145 .-- M] [Footnote 72: The villas, climate, and landscape of Baiae, (Var.ix.
6; see Cluver Italia Antiq.l.iv.c.2, p.
1119, &c.,) Istria, (Var.
xii. 22, 26,) and Comum, (Var.xi.
14; compare with Pliny's two villas, ix. 7,) are agreeably painted in the Epistles of Cassiodorus.] [Footnote 73: In Liguria numerosa agricolarum progenies, (Ennodius, p. 1678, 1679, 1680.) St.Epiphanius of Pavia redeemed by prayer or ransom 6000 captives from the Burgundians of Lyons and Savoy.
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