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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople
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xiii.leg.

3) fixes the standard at five feet seven inches, about five feet four inches and a half, English measure.

It had formerly been five feet ten inches, and in the best corps, six Roman feet.

Sed tunc erat amplior multitude se et plures sequebantur militiam armatam.

Vegetius de Re Militari l.i.c.


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