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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople
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329,) on the 26th of September, and that the city was dedicated the 11th of May, 5838, (A.D.

330.) He connects those dates with several characteristic epochs, but they contradict each other; the authority of Codinus is of little weight, and the space which he assigns must appear insufficient.

The term of ten years is given us by Julian, (Orat.i.

p.
8;) and Spanheim labors to establish the truth of it, (p.

69-75,) by the help of two passages from Themistius, (Orat.iv.p.


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