The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1AMS Press, 1974 - 541 sider |
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... Whilst Severus was engaged in his eastern war , he had reason to apprehend that the governor of Britain might pass the sea and the Alps , occupy the vacant seat of empire , and oppose his return with the authority of the senate and the ...
... Whilst Severus was engaged in his eastern war , he had reason to apprehend that the governor of Britain might pass the sea and the Alps , occupy the vacant seat of empire , and oppose his return with the authority of the senate and the ...
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... Whilst a conspiracy of women and eunuchs was concerted Defeat and with prudence , and conducted with rapid vigour , Macrinus , who Macrinus by a decisive motion might have crushed his infant enemy , floated between the opposite extremes ...
... Whilst a conspiracy of women and eunuchs was concerted Defeat and with prudence , and conducted with rapid vigour , Macrinus , who Macrinus by a decisive motion might have crushed his infant enemy , floated between the opposite extremes ...
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... whilst the latter , rooted to a single spot , and confined to a few years of existence , surpasses but very little his fellow - labourer the ox in the exercise of his mental faculties . The same and even a greater difference will be ...
... whilst the latter , rooted to a single spot , and confined to a few years of existence , surpasses but very little his fellow - labourer the ox in the exercise of his mental faculties . The same and even a greater difference will be ...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1914 |
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