The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 7Thomas M'Lean, 1827 |
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... losses - Surrender of Ravenna - Glory of Belisarius - His domestic shame and misfortunes CHAPTER XLII . • Page 1 ... Loss and recovery of Rome - Final conquest of Italy by Narses - Extinction of the Ostrogoths - Defeat of the Franks ...
... losses - Surrender of Ravenna - Glory of Belisarius - His domestic shame and misfortunes CHAPTER XLII . • Page 1 ... Loss and recovery of Rome - Final conquest of Italy by Narses - Extinction of the Ostrogoths - Defeat of the Franks ...
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... losses - Surrender of Ravenna --Glory of Belisarius - His domestic shame and misfortunes . WHEN Justinian ascended the throne , about fifty years after the fall of the western empire , the king- doms of the Goths and Vandals had ...
... losses - Surrender of Ravenna --Glory of Belisarius - His domestic shame and misfortunes . WHEN Justinian ascended the throne , about fifty years after the fall of the western empire , the king- doms of the Goths and Vandals had ...
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... whose cowardice was seldom exposed to military service . But the wiser citizens , who judged of the future by the past , revolved in their memory the immense loss , both of men and money , which 4 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
... whose cowardice was seldom exposed to military service . But the wiser citizens , who judged of the future by the past , revolved in their memory the immense loss , both of men and money , which 4 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
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Edward Gibbon. immense loss , both of men and money , which the empire had sustained in the expedition of Basiliscus . The troops which , after five laborious campaigns , had been recalled from the Persian frontier , dreaded the sea ...
Edward Gibbon. immense loss , both of men and money , which the empire had sustained in the expedition of Basiliscus . The troops which , after five laborious campaigns , had been recalled from the Persian frontier , dreaded the sea ...
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... loss of weight . To gain this miserable pro- fit , and to save the expense of wood , the prefect John of Cappadocia had given orders that the flour should be slightly baked by the same fire which warmed the baths of Constantinople : and ...
... loss of weight . To gain this miserable pro- fit , and to save the expense of wood , the prefect John of Cappadocia had given orders that the flour should be slightly baked by the same fire which warmed the baths of Constantinople : and ...
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