[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 XLIX: Conquest Of Italy By The Franks
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p.
528, Baskerville's edition;) but his superficial tract on the Christian religion owes its credit to his name, his style, and the interested applause of our clergy.] [Footnote 10: From the silence of James of Sarug, (Asseman.
Bibliot.
Orient.p.289, 318,) and the testimony of Evagrius, (Hist.Eccles.
l.
iv.c.
27,) I conclude that this fable was invented between the years 521 and 594, most probably after the siege of Edessa in 540, (Asseman.
tom.i.p.416.Procopius, de Bell.Persic.l.
ii.) It is the sword and buckler of, Gregory II., (in Epist.i.ad.Leon.Isaur.
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