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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XL: Reign Of Justinian
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11,) and in the Anecdotes, (c.

8, 15.) the different styles of adulation and malevolence: stripped of the paint, or cleansed from the dirt, the object appears to be the same.] [Footnote 110: Procopius, l.viii.

29; most probably a stranger and wanderer, as the Mediterranean does not breed whales.

Balaenae quoque in nostra maria penetrant, (Plin.Hist.Natur.ix.

2.) Between the polar circle and the tropic, the cetaceous animals of the ocean grow to the length of 50, 80, or 100 feet, (Hist.


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