GIBBON'S

HISTORY

OF THE

DECLINE AND FALL

OF

THE ROMAN EMPIRE:

FOR THE USE OF

Families and Poung Persons.

VOL. V.

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HISTORY

OF THE

DECLINE AND FALL

OF

THE ROMAN EMPIRE:

FOR THE USE OF

Families and Young Persons.

REPRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXT,
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By THOMAS BOWDLER, Esq. F.R.S. S.A.

EDITOR OF THE FAMILY SHAKSPEARE.

O Hamlet! thou hast cleft my heart in twain.

O, throw away the worser part of it;

And live the purer with the other half.

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Ubi animus requievit, et mihi reliquam ætatem a Republica procul habendam decrevi, non fuit consilium socordia atque desidia bonum otium conterere.

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIFTH VOLUME.

CHAP. XLII.

Series of Greek Emperors, from Leo the Philosopher to Romanus

Diogenes.-Victories of Nicephorus and John Zimisces.-Re-

covery of Crete, Cilicia, and Antioch.-Naval Enterprises of

the Russians.-Ruric.-Swatoslaus threatens Constantinople,

and is defeated by John Zimisces-Origin and Progress of the

Turks-Romanus Diogenes defeated and taken Prisoner by

the Sultan Alp Arslan, 911 to 1073.

A. D.

911 Alexander Constantine VII. Porphyrogenitus

919 Romanus I. Lecapenus

Christopher, Stephen, Constantine VIII.

945 Constantine VII.

963-975. The Eastern conquests of Nicephorus, Phocas,

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