Note 048 Genus hominum potentibus infidum, sperantibus fallax, quod in civitate nostra et vetabitur semper et retinebitur. Tacit. Hist. i. 22. See Augustine, The City of God, 1. viii. c. 19, and the Theodosian Code, 1. ix. tit. xvi. with Godefroy's Commentary.

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 25