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... native country , an obscure corner of Gaul , " to advance his fortune in the capital of the east : the talent of bold and ready elocution qualified him to succeed in the lu- crative profession of the law ; and his success in that ...
... native country , an obscure corner of Gaul , " to advance his fortune in the capital of the east : the talent of bold and ready elocution qualified him to succeed in the lu- crative profession of the law ; and his success in that ...
Side 5
... native country of Lycia , from the rank of Roman provinces ; stigmatized a guiltless people with a mark of ignominy ; and declared that the countrymen of Tatian and Proculus should ever re- main incapable of holding any employment of ...
... native country of Lycia , from the rank of Roman provinces ; stigmatized a guiltless people with a mark of ignominy ; and declared that the countrymen of Tatian and Proculus should ever re- main incapable of holding any employment of ...
Side 19
... natives of Italy affect- ed to despise the servile and effeminate Greeks of Byzan- ☐ See Claudian ( 1 Cons . Stilich . lib . 1. 275. 292. 296. lib . 2. 83. ) and Zosimus , lib . 5. p . 302 . tium , who presumed to imitate the dress ...
... natives of Italy affect- ed to despise the servile and effeminate Greeks of Byzan- ☐ See Claudian ( 1 Cons . Stilich . lib . 1. 275. 292. 296. lib . 2. 83. ) and Zosimus , lib . 5. p . 302 . tium , who presumed to imitate the dress ...
Side 21
... natives of the desert ; whom Gildo considered as the only guardians of his throne . In the civil war between Theodosius and Eugenius , the count , or rather the sovereign , of Africa , maintained a haughty and suspicious neutrality ; re ...
... natives of the desert ; whom Gildo considered as the only guardians of his throne . In the civil war between Theodosius and Eugenius , the count , or rather the sovereign , of Africa , maintained a haughty and suspicious neutrality ; re ...
Side 26
... natives of the cold regions of Gaul and Germany . But the Moor , who command- ed the legions of Honorius , was too well acquainted with the manners of his countrymen ,, to entertain any serious apprehension of a naked and disorderly ...
... natives of the cold regions of Gaul and Germany . But the Moor , who command- ed the legions of Honorius , was too well acquainted with the manners of his countrymen ,, to entertain any serious apprehension of a naked and disorderly ...
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