The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon ...

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Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
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diC xl. p. 709.)* The Italian aonalift has accurately traced the feriea of their inroads (Annalid'Italiay torn. vii. p. 36^. 367, 393* 401. 437* 440. torn. viii. p. 19. 41 $^, kc* Digitized by VjOOQIC THE DECLINE AND FALL the Turks ; and one of their boldefl warriors y prefumed to ftrike a battle-axe into the golden gate. The arts and treafures of the Greeks di- verted the
...affault ; but the Hungarians might boail in their retreat, that they had impofed a tribute on the fpii^it of Bulgaria and the majefty of the Cacfars (34)* The remote and rapid ope- rations of the fame campaign, appear to mag- nify the power and numbers of the Turks ; but their courage is moft deferving of praife, fincc a» light troop of three or four hundred horfe would often attempt and execute the moft dar- ing inroads to the gates of Thefialonica and Con^ ftantinople. At this difaftrous sera of the ninth and tenth centuries, Europe was afflided by a triple fcourge from, the North, the Eaft, and the South: the Norman, the Hungarian, and the Saracen, fometimes trod the fame ground of de^^ folation ; and thefe favage foes might have been compared by Homer to the two lions growling over the carcafe of a mangled ftag(35).

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