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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XXX: Revolt Of The Goths
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309, edit.

Louvre,) and Cluverius, (Ital.
Antiq tom i.p.

301-307.) Yet I still want a local antiquarian and a good topographical map.] [Footnote 61: Martial (Epigram iii.

56, 57) plays on the trick of the knave, who had sold him wine instead of water; but he seriously declares that a cistern at Ravenna is more valuable than a vineyard.

Sidonius complains that the town is destitute of fountains and aqueducts; and ranks the want of fresh water among the local evils, such as the croaking of frogs, the stinging of gnats, &c.] [Footnote 62: The fable of Theodore and Honoria, which Dryden has so admirably transplanted from Boccaccio, (Giornata iii.novell.


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