Note 181 . Such was the argument of the traitor Oppas, and every chief t& o whom it was addressed did not answer with the spirit of Pelagius: Omnis Hispania dudum sub uno regimine Gothorum, omnis exercitus Hispaniae in uno congregatus Ismaelitarum non valuit sustinere impetum. Chron. A1phonsi Regis, apud Pagi, tom. iii. p. 177.]

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