The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Band 1Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1994 - 3360 Seiten A new critical edition, complete & unmodernized. Contains variants, & comments & notes by Gibbon, plus his famous Vindication. Also includes description of the development of the work within the framework of Gibbon's life & the culture of the era. |
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... hundred yoke of oxen , two hundred and fifty thousand head of smaller cattle , and , what was almost in- 54 See Pliny ( Hist . Natur . 1. xxxiii . [ c . 47 ] ) and Athenæus ( Deipnosophist . 1. vi . [ c . 103 ] p . 272 ) . The latter ...
... hundred yoke of oxen , two hundred and fifty thousand head of smaller cattle , and , what was almost in- 54 See Pliny ( Hist . Natur . 1. xxxiii . [ c . 47 ] ) and Athenæus ( Deipnosophist . 1. vi . [ c . 103 ] p . 272 ) . The latter ...
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... hundred and sixty cities as Pliny has exhibited under the reign of Vespa- sian . " III Three hundred African cities had once acknowledged the authority of Carthage , " nor is it likely that their numbers diminished under the adminis ...
... hundred and sixty cities as Pliny has exhibited under the reign of Vespa- sian . " III Three hundred African cities had once acknowledged the authority of Carthage , " nor is it likely that their numbers diminished under the adminis ...
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... hundred columns of the four most curious and costly sorts of marble . " The pub- lic shows exhibited at his expense ... hundred pair of gladiators , never less than one hundred and fifty . He once gave for the use of the Circus one ...
... hundred columns of the four most curious and costly sorts of marble . " The pub- lic shows exhibited at his expense ... hundred pair of gladiators , never less than one hundred and fifty . He once gave for the use of the Circus one ...
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