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Title: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell), 1861-1927
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Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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force, to seize their persons and to strike at their lives. ^■^ I shall transcribe the important and decisive passage of the Liber Pontificalis.Eespiciens ergo plus vir profanam principis jussionem, jam contra Imperatoremquasi contra hostem se armavit, renuens hseresim ejus, scribens ubique se cavereChristianoB, eo quod orta fuisset impietas talis. Igitur permoti omnes Penta-polenses atque Venetiarum exercitus contra Imperatoris jussionem restiterunt;dicentes se nunquam in ejusdem pontificis condesoendere necem, sed pro ejus magisdefensione viriliter decertare (p. 156). ^8 A censtis, or capitation, says Anastasius (p. 156); a most cruel tax, unknownto the Saracens themselves, exclaims the zealous Maimbourg (Hist, des Icono-clastes, 1. i.), and Theophanes (p. 344), who talks of Pharaohs numbering the malechildren of Israel. This mode of taxation was familiar to the Saracens ; and, mostunluckily for the historian, it was imposed a few years afterwards in France by hispatron Lewis XIV.
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BYZANTINE MURAL MOSAIC: THE DESCENT INTO HELL AND LAST JUDGMENT(cathedral of torcello: eleventh century) I CHAP.XLix) OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 279 The city was repeatedly visited or assaulted by captains of theguards, and dukes and exarchs of high dignity or secret trust;they landed with foreign troops, they obtained some domesticaid, and the superstition of Naples may blush that her fatherswere attached to the cause of heresy. But these clandestineor open attacks were repelled by the courage and vigilanceof the Eomans; the Greeks were overthrown and massacred,their leaders suffered an ignominious death, and the popes,however inclined to mercy, refused to intercede for these guiltyvictims. At Eavenna,^^ the several quarters of the city hadlong exercised a bloody and hereditary feud; in religious con-troversy they found a new aliment of faction; but the votariesof images were superior in numbers or spirit, and the exarch,who attempted to stem the torrent, lost his life in a popular u.d. 727

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