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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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The Samaritans made a pap of millet, mingled with mare's milk or blood.

In the wealth of modern husbandry, our millet feeds poultry, and not heroes.

See the dictionaries of Bomare and Miller.] [Footnote 15: For the name and nation, the situation and manners, of the Sclavonians, see the original evidence of the vith century, in Procopius, (Goth.l.ii.c.26, l.iii.c.

14,) and the emperor Mauritius or Maurice (Stratagemat.l.ii.c.5, apud Mascon Annotat.
xxxi.) The stratagems of Maurice have been printed only, as I understand, at the end of Scheffer's edition of Arrian's Tactics, at Upsal, 1664, (Fabric.Bibliot.Graec.l.iv.

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