History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3Gibbon, Edward
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
Gibbon, Edward
Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
103 (return) [ See Ambrose, (tom. ii. de Obit. Valentinian. c.
15, &c. p. 1178. c. 36, &c. p. 1184.) When the young emperor gave
an entertainment, he fasted himself; he refused to see a handsome
actress, &c. Since he ordered his wild beasts to to be killed, it
is ungenerous in Philostor (l. xi. c. 1) to reproach him with the
love of that amusement.]
104 (return) [ Zosimus (l. iv. p. 275) praises the enemy of
Theodosius. But he is detested by Socrates (l. v. c. 25) and
Orosius, (l. vii. c. 35.)]
105 (return) [ Gregory of Tours (l. ii. c. 9, p. 165, in the
second volume of the Historians of France) has preserved a
curious fragment of Sulpicius Alexander, an historian far more
valuable than himself.]
106 (return) [ Godefroy (Dissertat. ad. Philostorg. p. 429-434)
has diligently collected all the circumstances of the death of
Valentinian II. The variations, and the ignorance, of
contemporary writers, prove that it was secret.]
107 (return) [ De Obitu Valentinian. tom. ii. p. 1173-1196. He is
forced to speak a discreet and obscure language: yet he is much
bolder than any layman, or perhaps any other ecclesiastic, would
have dared to be.]
108 (return) [ See c. 51, p. 1188, c. 75, p. 1193. Dom Chardon,
(Hist. des Sacramens, tom. i. p. 86,) who owns that St. Ambrose
most strenuously maintains the indispensable necessity of
baptism, labors to reconcile the contradiction.]
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