The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶143
These effusions of impotent rage against a dead emperor, whom the senate had flattered when alive with the most abject servility, betrayed a just but ungenerous spirit of revenge.Read in context ›
Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #731 (Milman edition) — public domain
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