Note 100 Al Wakidi had likewise composed a separate history of the conquest of Egypt, which Mr. Ockley could never procure; and his own inquiries (vol. i. 344 - 362) have added very little to the original text of Eutychius, (Annal. tom. ii. p. 296 - 323, vers. Pocock,) the Melchite patriarch of Alexandria, who lived three hundred years after the revolution.]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 51