Note 006
Imperium Asiae ter quaesivere: ipsi perpetuo ab alieno
imperio, aut intacti, aut invicti, mansere. Since the time
of Justin (ii. 3) they have multiplied this account.
Voltaire, in a few words (tom. x. p. 64, Hist. Generale, c.
156), has abridged the Tartar conquests.
Oft o'er the trembling nations from afar
Has Scythia breath'd the living cloud of war.
The History Of The Decline and Fall
Of The Roman Empire—
Chapter 26