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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XXXI: Invasion Of Italy, Occupation Of Territories By
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Per fasces numerantur Avi, semperque renata Nobilitate virent, et prolem fata sequuntur.
(Claudian in Prob.

et Olyb.Consulat.12, &c.) The Annii, whose name seems to have merged in the Anician, mark the Fasti with many consulships, from the time of Vespasian to the fourth century.] [Footnote 19: The title of first Christian senator may be justified by the authority of Prudentius (in Symmach.i.

553) and the dislike of the Pagans to the Anician family.

See Tillemont, Hist.

des Empereurs, tom.
iv.p.183, v.p.44.Baron.Annal.


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