The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Excerpt from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1

The memorable series of revolutions, which, in the course of about thirteen centuries, gradually undermined, and at length destroyed, the solid fabric of human greatness, may, with some propriety, be divided into the three following periods.

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