Note 113
Conditionibus . . . dispendiosis Romanae reipublicae
impositis . . . quibus cupidior regni quam gloriae Jovianus,
imperio rudis, adquievit. Sextus Rufus de Provinciis, c. 29.
La Bleterie has expressed, in a long, direct oration, these
specious considerations of public and private interest
(Hist. de Jovien, tom. i. p. 39, etc.).
The History Of The Decline and Fall
Of The Roman Empire—
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