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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XLIX: Conquest Of Italy By The Franks
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112) homicidas non esse qui excommunicatos trucidant.] [Footnote 41: Compescuit tale consilium Pontifex, sperans conversionem principis, (Anastas.p.

156.) Sed ne desisterent ab amore et fide R.
J.admonebat, (p.

157.) The popes style Leo and Constantine Copronymus, Imperatores et Domini, with the strange epithet of Piissimi.

A famous Mosaic of the Lateran (A.D.

798) represents Christ, who delivers the keys to St.Peter and the banner to Constantine V.( Muratori, Annali d'Italia, tom.vi.p.


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