Note 178
The antiquities of Toledo, Urbs Parva
in the Punic wars, Urbs Regia in the sixth century,
are briefly described by Nonius (Hispania, c. 59, p.
181-186). He borrows from Roderic the fatale palatium
of Moorish portraits, but modestly insinuates that it was no
more than a Roman amphitheatre.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 51