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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To
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443.) The romance of Apuleius is as full of devotion as of satire.

* Note: On the extraordinary progress of the Mahriac rites, in the West, see De Guigniaud's translation of Creuzer, vol.i.p.

365, and Note 9, tom.i.part 2, p.

738, &c .-- M.] [Footnote 137: The impostor Alexander very strongly recommended the oracle of Trophonius at Mallos, and those of Apollo at Claros and Miletus, (Lucian, tom.ii.p.236, edit.


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