The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe, 1806 - Byzantine Empire |
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Edward Gibbon. A. D. Debasement of Rome and of the Senate New Bodies of Guards , Jovians , and Herculians Civil Magistracies laid aside . Imperial Dignity and Titles Diocletian assumes the Diadem , and introduces the Persian Ceremonial ...
Edward Gibbon. A. D. Debasement of Rome and of the Senate New Bodies of Guards , Jovians , and Herculians Civil Magistracies laid aside . Imperial Dignity and Titles Diocletian assumes the Diadem , and introduces the Persian Ceremonial ...
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... body of Dalmatian guards . The death of Gallienus was resolved ; and , notwithstanding their desire of first terminating the siege of Milan , the extreme danger which accompanied every moment's delay , obliged them to hasten the exe ...
... body of Dalmatian guards . The death of Gallienus was resolved ; and , notwithstanding their desire of first terminating the siege of Milan , the extreme danger which accompanied every moment's delay , obliged them to hasten the exe ...
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... body pursuing a more steady course , anchored at length near the foot of mount Athos , and assaulted the city of Thessalonica , the wealthy capital of all the . Macedonian provinces . Their attacks , in which they displayed a fierce but ...
... body pursuing a more steady course , anchored at length near the foot of mount Athos , and assaulted the city of Thessalonica , the wealthy capital of all the . Macedonian provinces . Their attacks , in which they displayed a fierce but ...
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... body of the Gothic youth was received among the Imperial troops ; the remainder was sold into servitude ; and so considerable was the number of female captives , that every soldier obtained to his share two or three women . A ...
... body of the Gothic youth was received among the Imperial troops ; the remainder was sold into servitude ; and so considerable was the number of female captives , that every soldier obtained to his share two or three women . A ...
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... body of the Gothic and Vandalic tribes embraced the favourable op- portunity , abandoned their settlements of the Ukraine , traversed the rivers , and swelled with new multitudes the destroying host of their coun- trymen . Their united ...
... body of the Gothic and Vandalic tribes embraced the favourable op- portunity , abandoned their settlements of the Ukraine , traversed the rivers , and swelled with new multitudes the destroying host of their coun- trymen . Their united ...
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