History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

Edward Gibbon · Written 1782; revised 1845 (for the later edition context of the modern title page)

passage 526 of 558 · Chapter XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To > Chapter XXVI: Progress of The Huns.—Part III. (2/11)

↪ you wandered here via “Gothic conversion Ulphilas” — the connecting lines are tinted below

from them, and dispersed through the provinces of Asia; where they might be civilized by the arts of education, and serve as hostages to secure the fidelity of their parents.

63 (return) [ The Chronology of Ammianus is obscure and imperfect. Tillemont has labored to clear and settle the annals of Valens.]

64 (return) [ Zosimus, l. iv. p. 223. Sozomen, l. vi. c. 38. The Isaurians, each winter, infested the roads of Asia Minor, as far as the neighborhood of Constantinople. Basil, Epist. cel. apud Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, tom. v. p. 106.]

6411 (return) [ Sozomen and Philostorgius say that the bishop Ulphilas was one of these ambassadors.—M.]

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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 · Edward Gibbon · 1782–1845