The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1George Bell and Sons, 1891 |
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... kings of Bosphorus , Colchos , Iberia , Albania , Osrhoene , and even the Parthian monarch himself , had accepted their diadems from the hands of the emperor ; that the independent tribes of the Median and Carducian hills had implored ...
... kings of Bosphorus , Colchos , Iberia , Albania , Osrhoene , and even the Parthian monarch himself , had accepted their diadems from the hands of the emperor ; that the independent tribes of the Median and Carducian hills had implored ...
Side 8
... kings , the god Terminus ( who presided over boundaries , and was represented , according to the fashion of that age , by a large stone ) alone , among all the inferior deities , refused to yield his place to Jupiter himself . A ...
... kings , the god Terminus ( who presided over boundaries , and was represented , according to the fashion of that age , by a large stone ) alone , among all the inferior deities , refused to yield his place to Jupiter himself . A ...
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... king- doms of Servia and Bulgaria , is again united in Turkish slavery . The appellation of Roumelia , which is still bestowed by the Turks on the extensive countries of Thrace , Macedonia , and Greece , preserves the memory of their ...
... king- doms of Servia and Bulgaria , is again united in Turkish slavery . The appellation of Roumelia , which is still bestowed by the Turks on the extensive countries of Thrace , Macedonia , and Greece , preserves the memory of their ...
Side 30
... king of Persia , was very eager to gain possession of Palestine , on account of its extraordinary fertility , its opulence , and the great number of its inhabitants . The Saracens were of the same opinion , and feared that Omar would be ...
... king of Persia , was very eager to gain possession of Palestine , on account of its extraordinary fertility , its opulence , and the great number of its inhabitants . The Saracens were of the same opinion , and feared that Omar would be ...
Side 49
... kings had in- troduced a silent revolution into Syria and Egypt . In their pompous courts those princes united the elegance of Athens with the luxury of the east ; and the example of the court was imitated , at an humble distance , by ...
... kings had in- troduced a silent revolution into Syria and Egypt . In their pompous courts those princes united the elegance of Athens with the luxury of the east ; and the example of the court was imitated , at an humble distance , by ...
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