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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople
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7.] [Footnote 27: The Greeks, Theophanes, Cedrenus, and the author of the Alexandrian Chronicle, confine themselves to vague and general expressions.

For a more particular account of the vision, we are obliged to have recourse to such Latin writers as William of Malmesbury.


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