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... barbarians with astonishment , veneration , and terror . From the palace gate , the spacious courts and long porticoes were lined with the lofty crests and gilt bucklers of the guards , who presented their spears and axes with more ...
... barbarians with astonishment , veneration , and terror . From the palace gate , the spacious courts and long porticoes were lined with the lofty crests and gilt bucklers of the guards , who presented their spears and axes with more ...
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... barbarian , " resemble , in figure and in smell , the mares of our Sarmatian plains . " And this insult was a coarse allusion to the white bands which enveloped their legs . " Add another resemblance , " replied an audacious Lombard ...
... barbarian , " resemble , in figure and in smell , the mares of our Sarmatian plains . " And this insult was a coarse allusion to the white bands which enveloped their legs . " Add another resemblance , " replied an audacious Lombard ...
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... barbarians . In the attack of the Gepida he had been prompted by the just desire of extirpating a people whom their alliance with the Roman empire had rendered the common enemies of the nations and the personal adversaries of the chagan ...
... barbarians . In the attack of the Gepida he had been prompted by the just desire of extirpating a people whom their alliance with the Roman empire had rendered the common enemies of the nations and the personal adversaries of the chagan ...
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... barbarian could readily compute . The fair Rosamond was persuaded or compelled to acknowledge the rights of her victorious lover ; and the daughter of Cuni- mund appeared to forgive those crimes which might be imputed to her own ...
... barbarian could readily compute . The fair Rosamond was persuaded or compelled to acknowledge the rights of her victorious lover ; and the daughter of Cuni- mund appeared to forgive those crimes which might be imputed to her own ...
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... barbarians ; and the names of the Gepidæ , Bulgarians , Sarmatians , and Bavarians , may be dis- tinctly traced in the provinces of Italy.17 Of the Saxons , the old allies of the Lombards , twenty thousand warriors , with their wives ...
... barbarians ; and the names of the Gepidæ , Bulgarians , Sarmatians , and Bavarians , may be dis- tinctly traced in the provinces of Italy.17 Of the Saxons , the old allies of the Lombards , twenty thousand warriors , with their wives ...
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