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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XL: Reign Of Justinian
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Alemannus (p.

12, 13) understands of Theophanes as civil language, which does not imply either piety or repentance; yet two years after her death, St.
Theodora is celebrated by Paul Silentiarius, (in proem.v.

58--62.)] [Footnote 40: As she persecuted the popes, and rejected a council, Baronius exhausts the names of Eve, Dalila, Herodias, &c.; after which he has recourse to his infernal dictionary: civis inferni--alumna daemonum--satanico agitata spiritu-oestro percita diabolico, &c., &c., (A.D.548, No.

24.)] II.

A material difference may be observed in the games of antiquity: the most eminent of the Greeks were actors, the Romans were merely spectators.


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