The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 5F. De Fau, 1906 - Byzantine Empire |
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... orator , who may be silent without danger , may praise without difficulty and without reluctance ; 79 and posterity ... oration at Rome ( A.D. 388 ) . He was afterwards proconsul of Africa ; and his friend Ausonius praises him as a poet ...
... orator , who may be silent without danger , may praise without difficulty and without reluctance ; 79 and posterity ... oration at Rome ( A.D. 388 ) . He was afterwards proconsul of Africa ; and his friend Ausonius praises him as a poet ...
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... orator , whose petition is extant to the emperor Valentinian , was conscious of the difficulty and danger of the office which he had assumed . He cautiously avoids every topic which might appear to reflect on the religion of his ...
... orator , whose petition is extant to the emperor Valentinian , was conscious of the difficulty and danger of the office which he had assumed . He cautiously avoids every topic which might appear to reflect on the religion of his ...
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... orator had suppressed ; and the calamities which afflicted , or threatened , the declining empire were unanimously imputed , by the Pagans , to the new religion of Christ and of Constantine . But the hopes of Symmachus were repeatedly ...
... orator had suppressed ; and the calamities which afflicted , or threatened , the declining empire were unanimously imputed , by the Pagans , to the new religion of Christ and of Constantine . But the hopes of Symmachus were repeatedly ...
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