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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XL: Reign Of Justinian
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338,) and the scholiast of Lucian.

See Fabricius, (Bibliot.Graec.l.iii.c.

22, tom.ii.p.551, 552,) to whom I am more or less indebted for several of these quotations.] [Footnote 96: Zonaras (l.xi.c.p.

55) affirms the fact, without quoting any evidence.] [Footnote 97: Tzetzes describes the artifice of these burning-glasses, which he had read, perhaps, with no learned eyes, in a mathematical treatise of Anthemius.


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