The nations who invaded the Roman Empire had driven before them, into Italy, whole troops of hungry and affrighted provincials, less apprehensive of servitude than of famine. The calamities of Rome and Italy dispersed the inhabitants to the most lonely,... The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - 第322页作者:Edward Gibbon - 1811全本阅读 - 图书信息
| James Bicheno - 1808 - 376 页
...Rome. was taken by Alaric, and given up to plunder. " The calamities of " Rome and Italy (says Gibbon) dispersed the inhabitants " to the most lonely, the...most secure, the most distant " places of refuge. — This awful catastrophe of Rome " tilled the astonished empire with grief and terror." f Alaric... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 页
...their redemption *. The nations who in- CHAP. vaded the Roman empire had driven before them, _ xxv ' into Italy, whole troops of hungry and affrighted...seacoast of Campania and Tuscany, the little island of Igilium, separated by a narrow channel from the Argentarian promontory, repulsed, or eluded, their... | |
| Edward Irving - 1831 - 470 页
...transcribed to help our conception : " The nations who invaded the Roman empire had driven before them whole troops of hungry and affrighted provincials,...most secure, the most distant places of refuge.... the most noble maidens of Rome were basely sold to the lust and avarice of the Syrian merchants. The... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 462 页
...moderate term of five years, till they had discharged by their labour the price of their redemption.111 The nations who invaded the Roman empire had driven...provincials, less apprehensive of servitude than of famine. 107 Orosius, 1. ii. c. 19, p. 143. He speaks us if he disapproved all statues; vel Deum vel hominem... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 672 页
...moderate term of five years, till they had discharged by their labor the price of their redemption.111 The nations who invaded the Roman empire, had driven before them, into Italy, whole troops of nungry and affrighted provincials, less apprehensive of servitude than of famine. The calamities of... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 478 页
...a prosperous future, were suddenly reduced to the miserable condition of captives and exiles. . . . The nations who invaded the Roman empire had driven...the most secure, the most distant places of refuge. . . . The Italian fugitives were dispersed through the provinces, along the coast of Egypt and Asia,... | |
| Archibald Wilberforce - 1899 - 536 页
...should be obliged to serve the moderate term of five years, till they had discharged by their labor the price of their redemption. The nations who invaded...seacoast of Campania and Tuscany, the little island of Igilium, separated by a narrow channel from the Argentarian promontory, repulsed or eluded their hostile... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 680 页
...moderate term of five years, till they had discharged by their labor the price of their redemption.111 The nations who invaded the Roman empire, had driven before them, into Italy, whole troops of nungry and affrighted provincials, less apprehensive of servitude than of famine. The calamities of... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 426 页
...a prosperous future, were suddenly reduced to the miserable condition of captives and exiles. . . . The nations who invaded the Roman empire had driven...the most secure, the most distant places of refuge. . . . The Italian fugitives were dispersed through the provinces, along the coast of Egypt and Asia,... | |
| 1901 - 634 页
...a prosperous future, were suddenly reduced to the miserable condition of captives and exiles. . . . The nations who invaded the Roman empire had driven before them into Italy whole troops of hungry arid affrighted provincials, less apprehensive of servitude than of famine. The calamities of Rome... | |
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