Monday, May 25, 2015

"sometimes vanquished in battle, always victorious in war".

     Edward Gibbon, The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, chap. 38, "General observations on the fall of the Roman Empire in the West" (ed. Bury, 3rd edition, vol. 4 (London: Methuen & Co., 1908 [1897]), p. 165).

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