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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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181,) the ordinary rent of the several coenacula, or apartments of an insula, annually produced forty thousand sesterces, between three and four hundred pounds sterling, (Pandect.

l.
xix.tit.ii.No.

30,) a sum which proves at once the large extent, and high value, of those common buildings.] [Footnote 71: This sum total is composed of 1780 domus, or great houses of 46,602 insuloe, or plebeian habitations, (see Nardini, Roma Antica, l.iii.p.

88;) and these numbers are ascertained by the agreement of the texts of the different Notitioe.

Nardini, l.viii.p.498, 500.] [Footnote 72: See that accurate writer M.de Messance, Recherches sur la Population, p.


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