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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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c.16.He lived in the time of Alexander Severus.

See Fabricius, Biblioth.

Graeca, l.iv.c.

21.] [Footnote 741: This may in some degree account for the difficulty started by Livy, as to the incredibly numerous armies raised by the small states around Rome where, in his time, a scanty stock of free soldiers among a larger population of Roman slaves broke the solitude.

Vix seminario exiguo militum relicto servitia Romana ab solitudine vindicant, Liv.


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