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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XLII: State Of The Barbaric World
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de Moribus German.c.

40.) See likewise Strabo, (l.viii.p.

446.) The best geographers place them beyond the Elbe, in the bishopric of Magdeburgh and the middle march of Brandenburgh; and their situation will agree with the patriotic remark of the count de Hertzberg, that most of the Barbarian conquerors issued from the same countries which still produce the armies of Prussia.

* Note: See Malte Brun, vol.i.p 402 .-- M] [Footnote 8: The Scandinavian origin of the Goths and Lombards, as stated by Paul Warnefrid, surnamed the deacon, is attacked by Cluverius, (Germania, Antiq.l.iii.c.26, p.

102, &c.,) a native of Prussia, and defended by Grotius, (Prolegom.


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