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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople
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Casaub.] The other temple of Comana, in Pontus, was a colony from that of Cappadocia, l.xii.p.835.The President Des Brosses (see his Saluste, tom.ii.

p.
21, [edit.

Causub.]) conjectures that the deity adored in both Comanas was Beltis, the Venus of the east, the goddess of generation; a very different being indeed from the goddess of war.] [Footnote 155: Cod.Theod.l.x.tit.

vi.

de Grege Dominico.


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