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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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4;) but the latter was afterwards restored by Justinian, (de Edif.l.iv.c.

7.)] [Footnote 81: In the time of Pliny, Arrian, and Ptolemy, the Lazi were a particular tribe on the northern skirts of Colchos, (Cellarius, Geograph.Antiq.tom.ii.p.

222.) In the age of Justinian, they spread, or at least reigned, over the whole country.

At present, they have migrated along the coast towards Trebizond, and compose a rude sea-faring people, with a peculiar language, (Chardin, p.149.

Peyssonel p.


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