The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶139

He contributed at least to improve this advantage, by his negotiations with the free and warlike people of Chersonesus, whose capital, situate on the western coast of the Tauric or Crimæan peninsula, still retained some vestiges of a Grecian colony, and was governed by a perpetual magistrate, assisted by a council of senators, emphatically styled the Fathers of the City.

Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #732 (Milman edition) — public domain
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