(See Tacit.Annal.ii.85.Joseph.

Antiquit.l.xviii.c.

3.) * Note: See, in the pictures from the walls of Pompeii, the representation of an Isiac temple and worship.

Vestiges of Egyptian worship have been traced in Gaul, and, I am informed, recently in Britain, in excavations at York .-- M.] [Footnote 151: Gibbon here blends into one, two events, distant a hundred and sixty-six years from each other.

It was in the year of Rome 535, that the senate having ordered the destruction of the temples of Isis and Serapis, the workman would lend his hand; and the consul, L.Paulus himself (Valer.Max.1, 3) seized the axe, to give the first blow.
Gibbon attribute this circumstance to the second demolition, which took place in the year 701 and which he considers as the first .-- W.] [Footnote 16: Tertullian in Apologetic.c.6, p.74.Edit.