[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
CHAPTER XLII: State Of The Barbaric World
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161.)] [Footnote 50: In the fifth century, the name of Restom, or Rostam, a hero who equalled the strength of twelve elephants, was familiar to the Armenians, (Moses Chorenensis, Hist.Armen.l.ii.c.
7, p.
96, edit.
Whiston.) In the beginning of the seventh, the Persian Romance of Rostam and Isfendiar was applauded at Mecca, (Sale's Koran, c.xxxi.p.
335.) Yet this exposition of ludicrum novae historiae is not given by Maracci, (Refutat.Alcoran.p.
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