Note 006 For these characteristic speeches, compare the verse of Corippus (l. iii. 251 - 401) with the prose of Menander, (Excerpt. Legation. p 102, 103.) Their diversity proves that they did not copy each other their resemblance, that they drew from a common original.]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 45