 | Albert Barnes - 1884 - 568 pages
...deereased with the means of subsistence ; and the country was exhausted by the irrctricvable losses of war, famine, and pestilence. St. Ambrose has deplored the ruin of a populous district, which had bcen once adorned with the flourishing citles o( Bologna, Modena, Regium, and Placentia.... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1891 - 720 pages
...Verona may be traced in its remains ; yet Verona was less celebrated than Padua, Milan, or Bavenna. But from the reign of Tiberius the decay of agriculture...adorned with the flourishing cities of Bologna, Modena, Eegium, and Placentia. The barbarians who took possession of Italy on the fall of the Western Empire... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 576 pages
...losses of war, famine, 146 and pestilence. St. Ambrose has deplored the ruin of a populous district, which had been once adorned with the flourishing cities of Bologna, Modena, Regium, and Placentia. 14 " Pope Gelasius was a subject 143 See Baronius, Annal. Eccles. AD 483, No. 10-15. Sixteen years... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 736 pages
...diminished with the means of subsistence ; and the country was exhausted by the irretrievable losses of war, famine, and pestilence. St. Ambrose has deplored the ruin of a populous district, which had been once adorned with the flourishing cities of Bononia (Bologna), Mutina (Modena),... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pages
...losses of war, famine,139 and pestilence. St Ambrose has deplored the ruin of a populous district, which had been once adorned with the flourishing cities of Bologna, Modena, Regium, and Placentia.140 Pope Gelasius was a subject of Odoacer, and he affirms, with strong exaggeration, that... | |
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In the division and the decline of the empire, the tributary harvests of Egypt and Africa were withdrawn; the numbers of the inhabitants continually diminished with the means of subsistence; and the country was exhausted by the irretrievable losses of... 
