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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople
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10.] [Footnote 36: One hundred and eleven stadia, which may be translated into modern Greek miles each of seven stadia, or 660, sometimes only 600 French toises.

See D'Anville, Mesures Itineraires, p.

53.] [Footnote 37: When the ancient texts, which describe the size of Babylon and Thebes, are settled, the exaggerations reduced, and the measures ascertained, we find that those famous cities filled the great but not incredible circumference of about twenty-five or thirty miles.

Compare D'Anville, Mem.

de l'Academie, tom.xxviii.p.235, with his Description de l'Egypte, p.


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