[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 L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants
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* Note: On the ruins of Petra, see the travels of Messrs.
Irby and Mangles, and of Leon de Laborde .-- M.] [Footnote 25: Niebuhr (Description de l'Arabie, p.
302, 303, 329-331) affords the most recent and authentic intelligence of the Turkish empire in Arabia.
* Note: Niebuhr's, notwithstanding the multitude of later travellers, maintains its ground, as the classical work on Arabia .-- M.] [Footnote 26: Diodorus Siculus (tom.ii.l.xix.p.
390-393, edit.
Wesseling) has clearly exposed the freedom of the Nabathaean Arabs, who resisted the arms of Antigonus and his son.] [Footnote 27: Strabo, l.xvi.p.
1127-1129.
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