Note 146 Theophanes (in Chronograph. p. 293 (vol. i. p. 539)) inserts the vague rumours that might reach Constantinople of the Western conquests of the Arabs; and I learn from Paul Warnefrid, deacon of Aquileia (de Gestis Langobard. l. v. c 13), that at this time they sent a fleet from Alexandria into the Sicilian and African seas.]

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