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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To
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27.] [Footnote 5: See Basnage, Histoire des Juifs, l.iii.c.2, 3.

The office of Patriarch was suppressed by Theodosius the younger.] [Footnote 6: We need only mention the Purim, or deliverance of the Jews from he rage of Haman, which, till the reign of Theodosius, was celebrated with insolent triumph and riotous intemperance.

Basnage, Hist.

des Juifs, l.vi.c.17, l.viii.c.

6.] [Footnote 7: According to the false Josephus, Tsepho, the grandson of Esau, conducted into Italy the army of Eneas, king of Carthage.


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