The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 5F. De Fau, 1906 - Byzantine Empire |
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... Roman world were subverted , about sixty years after the conversion of Constantine . From the age of Numa to the reign of Gratian the Romans preserved the regular succession of the several colleges of the sacerdotal order . Fifteen ...
... Roman world were subverted , about sixty years after the conversion of Constantine . From the age of Numa to the reign of Gratian the Romans preserved the regular succession of the several colleges of the sacerdotal order . Fifteen ...
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... Roman jewels and Patrician hand- maids , " was reduced to implore the mercy of the insulting 45 45 Orosius wishes , in doubtful words , to insinuate the defeat of the Romans . " Pugnantes vicimus , victores victi sumus . " Prosper ( in ...
... Roman jewels and Patrician hand- maids , " was reduced to implore the mercy of the insulting 45 45 Orosius wishes , in doubtful words , to insinuate the defeat of the Romans . " Pugnantes vicimus , victores victi sumus . " Prosper ( in ...
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... Roman great- ness . He celebrates with peculiar satisfaction this memorable triumph of Christ ; and insults his adversaries by challenging them to produce some similar example of a ... Roman people : A.D. 408-420 ] OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 243.
... Roman great- ness . He celebrates with peculiar satisfaction this memorable triumph of Christ ; and insults his adversaries by challenging them to produce some similar example of a ... Roman people : A.D. 408-420 ] OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 243.
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