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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XLIX: Conquest Of Italy By The Franks
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149-151,) Pagi, (Critica, A.D.

740, No.

6-11,) Muratori, (Annali d'Italia, tom.vi.p.

308-329,) and St.
Marc, (Abrege Chronologique d'Italie, tom.i.p.

379-382.) Of these the Franciscan Pagi is the most disposed to make the patrician a lieutenant of the church, rather than of the empire.] [Footnote 59: The papal advocates can soften the symbolic meaning of the banner and the keys; but the style of ad regnum dimisimus, or direximus, (Codex Carolin.epist.i.tom.iii.


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