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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER II: The Internal Prosperity In The Age Of The Antonines
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6.] [Footnote 31: Memnon apud Photium, (c.

33,) [c.

224, p.

231, ed Bekker.] Valer.Maxim.ix.2.Plutarch and Dion Cassius swell the massacre to 150,000 citizens; but I should esteem the smaller number to be more than sufficient.] [Footnote 32: Twenty-five colonies were settled in Spain, (see Plin.
Hist.Nat.iii.3, 4; iv.

35;) and nine in Britain, of which London, Colchester, Lincoln, Chester, Gloucester, and Bath still remain considerable cities.


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