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- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1776 ). Chap. lxviii.; Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, Edward Gibbon entry; Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1776 ). Chap. lxviii.; Wording and named work checked in Bartlett’s published reference; literary quotations are excerpts. Source id
- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1776 ). Chap. lxviii.
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