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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople
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4,) in which he paints the manners of contemporary lawyers, affords a strange mixture of sound sense, false rhetoric, and extravagant satire.

Godefroy (Prolegom.ad.Cod.Theod.c.

i.p.

185) supports the historian by similar complaints and authentic facts.

In the fourth century, many camels might have been laden with law-books.


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