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8.: PENETRABIS AD URBEM — ( P. 148 ) - Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 5 [1776]Edition used:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury with an Introduction by W.E.H. Lecky (New York: Fred de Fau and Co., 1906), in 12 vols. Vol. 5.
Part of: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vols.
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8.PENETRABIS AD URBEM — (P. 148)The clear voice which Alaric heard in the grove uttered an acrostich with the help of Claudian’s art. It has been pointed out that the first and last letters of the two verses (B.G. 546-7) spell ROMA.
So it is printed in Koch’s edition. |
