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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople
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37--M.] [Footnote 52: See the Notitia.

Rome only reckoned 1780 large houses, domus; but the word must have had a more dignified signification.

No insulae are mentioned at Constantinople.

The old capital consisted of 42 streets, the new of 322.] The populousness of his favored city was the next and most serious object of the attention of its founder.

In the dark ages which succeeded the translation of the empire, the remote and the immediate consequences of that memorable event were strangely confounded by the vanity of the Greeks and the credulity of the Latins.


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