The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1Methuen & Company, 1909 - Byzantine Empire |
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... latter part of Zonaras , Bidez and Parmentier's Evagrius , Reifferscheid's Anna Comnena , Heisen- berg's George Acropolites , Förster's Libanius and Haury's Procopius ( neither yet completed ) , to mention only some of the most ...
... latter part of Zonaras , Bidez and Parmentier's Evagrius , Reifferscheid's Anna Comnena , Heisen- berg's George Acropolites , Förster's Libanius and Haury's Procopius ( neither yet completed ) , to mention only some of the most ...
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... latter . The proximity of its situation to the coast of Gaul seemed to invite their arms ; the pleasing , though doubtful , intelligence of a pearl fishery attracted their avarice ; and as Britain was viewed in the 6 3 By the slaughter ...
... latter . The proximity of its situation to the coast of Gaul seemed to invite their arms ; the pleasing , though doubtful , intelligence of a pearl fishery attracted their avarice ; and as Britain was viewed in the 6 3 By the slaughter ...
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... latter use of his weapon , as his own body remained less ex- posed , whilst he inflicted a more dangerous wound on his adversary.47 The legion was usually drawn up eight deep ; and the regular distance of three feet was left between the ...
... latter use of his weapon , as his own body remained less ex- posed , whilst he inflicted a more dangerous wound on his adversary.47 The legion was usually drawn up eight deep ; and the regular distance of three feet was left between the ...
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... latter of those Illyrian mighty streams , which rises at the distance of only thirty miles from the former , flows above thirteen hundred miles , for the most part to the south - east , collects the tribute of sixty navigable rivers ...
... latter of those Illyrian mighty streams , which rises at the distance of only thirty miles from the former , flows above thirteen hundred miles , for the most part to the south - east , collects the tribute of sixty navigable rivers ...
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... latter a Turkish pasha ; but the whole country is still infested by tribes . of barbarians , whose savage independence irregularly marks the doubtful limit of the Christian and Mahometan power . 85 84 The name of Illyricum originally ...
... latter a Turkish pasha ; but the whole country is still infested by tribes . of barbarians , whose savage independence irregularly marks the doubtful limit of the Christian and Mahometan power . 85 84 The name of Illyricum originally ...
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