[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople
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and Aediles, and especially with Jurisdiction." Savigny, Geschichte des Rom.
Rechts i.
p.
51--M.] [Footnote 63: Julian (Orat.i.p.
8) celebrates Constantinople as not less superior to all other cities than she was inferior to Rome itself.
His learned commentator (Spanheim, p.
75, 76) justifies this language by several parallel and contemporary instances.
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