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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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446-468.)] [Footnote 122: Gaillard very properly observes, that this pageant was a farce suitable to children only; but that it was indeed represented in the presence, and for the benefit, of children of a larger growth.] [Footnote 123: Compare, in the original texts collected by Pagi, (tom.iii.

A.D.812, No.

7, A.D.824, No.

10, &c.,) the contrast of Charlemagne and his son; to the former the ambassadors of Michael (who were indeed disavowed) more suo, id est lingua Graeca laudes dixerunt, imperatorem eum et appellantes; to the latter, Vocato imperatori Francorum, &c.] [Footnote 124: See the epistle, in Paralipomena, of the anonymous writer of Salerno, (Script.Ital.tom.ii.pars ii.p.

243-254, c.


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