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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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3.) Reddita sunt?
mirum est: mirum est auferre nequtsse.
Est tamen in dubio, hinc mirer an inde magis.] [Footnote 92: Twice, at the request of Hadrian and Leo, he appeared at Rome,--longa tunica et chlamyde amictus, et calceamentis quoque Romano more formatis.

Eginhard (c.xxiii.p.

109-113) describes, like Suetonius the simplicity of his dress, so popular in the nation, that when Charles the Bald returned to France in a foreign habit, the patriotic dogs barked at the apostate, (Gaillard, Vie de Charlemagne, tom.iv.p.

109.)] [Footnote 93: See Anastasius (p.

199) and Eginhard, (c.xxviii.


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