Note 039 Montesquieu (Considerations sur la Grandeur, etc., c. xix.) has delineated, with a bold and easy pencil, some of the most striking circumstances of the pride of Attila and the disgrace of the Romans. He deserves the praise of having read the Fragments of Priscus, which have been too much disregarded.

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 34