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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LXI: Partition Of The Empire By The French And Venetians
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His encomium of Athens, and the description of Tempe, should be published from the Bodleian MS.

of Nicetas, (Fabric.Bibliot.Graec.

tom.
vi.p.

405,) and would have deserved Mr.Harris's inquiries.] [Footnote 13: Napoli de Romania, or Nauplia, the ancient seaport of Argos, is still a place of strength and consideration, situate on a rocky peninsula, with a good harbor, (Chandler's Travels into Greece, p.
227.)] [Footnote 14: I have softened the expression of Nicetas, who strives to expose the presumption of the Franks.

See the Rebus post C.P.
expugnatam, p.


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