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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople
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Honorii, 611] [Footnote 89: Celebrant quidem solemnes istos dies omnes ubique urbes quae sub legibus agunt; et Roma de more, et Constantinopolis de imitatione, et Antiochia pro luxu, et discincta Carthago, et domus fluminis Alexandria, sed Treviri Principis beneficio.

Ausonius in Grat.
Actione.] [Footnote 90: Claudian (in Cons.Mall.Theodori, 279-331) describes, in a lively and fanciful manner, the various games of the circus, the theatre, and the amphitheatre, exhibited by the new consul.

The sanguinary combats of gladiators had already been prohibited.] [Footnote 91: Procopius in Hist.

Arcana, c.

26.] [Footnote 92: In Consulatu honos sine labore suscipitur.


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