[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link book

[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link book

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XXIX: Division Of Roman Empire Between Sons Of Theodosius
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He afterwards (515-526) mentions a religious madman on the Isle of Gorgona.
For such profane remarks, Rutilius and his accomplices are styled, by his commentator, Barthius, rabiosi canes diaboli.

Tillemont (Mem.
Eccles com.xii.p.

471) more calmly observes, that the unbelieving poet praises where he means to censure.] [Footnote 47: Orosius, l.vii.c.36, p.564.Augustin commends two of these savage saints of the Isle of Goats, (epist.lxxxi.apud Tillemont, Mem.Eccles.tom.xiii.p.

317, and Baronius, Annal Eccles.

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