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Zosimus, 1. v- [c- 31] p. 338, 339. Sozomen, 1. ix. c. 4. Stilicho offered to undertake the journey to Constantinople, that he might divert Honorius from the vain attempt. The Eastern empire would not have obeyed, and could not have been conquered.
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