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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LXII: Greek Emperors Of Nice And Constantinople
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355,) no incompetent judges, entertain a more favorable opinion of the Attic dialect.] [Footnote 59: Yet we must not accuse them of corrupting the name of Athens, which they still call Athini.

From the eiV thn 'Aqhnhn, we have formed our own barbarism of _Setines_.

* Note: Gibbon did not foresee a Bavarian prince on the throne of Greece, with Athens as his capital .-- M.].


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