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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LXII: Greek Emperors Of Nice And Constantinople
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See the third book of Nicephorus Gregoras.] [Footnote 8: Pachymer (l.i.c.

21) names and discriminates fifteen or twenty Greek families, kai osoi alloi, oiV h megalogenhV seira kai crush sugkekrothto.

Does he mean, by this decoration, a figurative or a real golden chain?
Perhaps, both.] [Footnote 9: The old geographers, with Cellarius and D'Anville, and our travellers, particularly Pocock and Chandler, will teach us to distinguish the two Magnesias of Asia Minor, of the Maeander and of Sipylus.

The latter, our present object, is still flourishing for a Turkish city, and lies eight hours, or leagues, to the north-east of Smyrna, (Tournefort, Voyage du Levant, tom.iii.lettre xxii.

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365--370.


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