The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 4Baudry's European Library, 1840 |
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Side 1
... Scythia issued from their ( 1 ) The revolt of the Goths and the blockade of Constantinople , are distinctly mentioned by Claudian ( in Rufin . 1. ii . 7 ~ 100 . ) , Zosimus ( 1. v . p . 292. ) , and Jornandes ( de Rebus Geticis , c . 29 ...
... Scythia issued from their ( 1 ) The revolt of the Goths and the blockade of Constantinople , are distinctly mentioned by Claudian ( in Rufin . 1. ii . 7 ~ 100 . ) , Zosimus ( 1. v . p . 292. ) , and Jornandes ( de Rebus Geticis , c . 29 ...
Side 7
... Scythia were permitted to disgrace the illustrious dignities of the empire ; their ferocious youth , who disdained the salutary restraint of laws , were more anxious to acquire the riches , than to imitate the arts , of a people , the ...
... Scythia were permitted to disgrace the illustrious dignities of the empire ; their ferocious youth , who disdained the salutary restraint of laws , were more anxious to acquire the riches , than to imitate the arts , of a people , the ...
Side 19
... Scythia , ance from the Goths , a furious tempest was excited among the A. D. 400 . nations of Germany , who yielded to the irresistible impulse that appears to have been gradually communicated from the eastern extremity of the ...
... Scythia , ance from the Goths , a furious tempest was excited among the A. D. 400 . nations of Germany , who yielded to the irresistible impulse that appears to have been gradually communicated from the eastern extremity of the ...
Side 20
... Scythian monarchs . The youth of Toulun , the greatest of his descendants , was exercised by those misfortunes which are the school of heroes . He bravely struggled with adversity , broke the imperious yoke of the Topa , and became the ...
... Scythian monarchs . The youth of Toulun , the greatest of his descendants , was exercised by those misfortunes which are the school of heroes . He bravely struggled with adversity , broke the imperious yoke of the Topa , and became the ...
Side 30
... Scythia . On the side of the Pyrenees , the ambition of Constantine might A. D. 408. be justified by the proximity of danger ; but his throne was soon established by the conquest , or rather submission , of Spain ; which yielded to the ...
... Scythia . On the side of the Pyrenees , the ambition of Constantine might A. D. 408. be justified by the proximity of danger ; but his throne was soon established by the conquest , or rather submission , of Spain ; which yielded to the ...
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