The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶199
9. Magical incantations; which had power, in the opinion of the Latin shepherds, to exhaust the strength of an enemy, to extinguish his life, and to remove from their seats his deep-rooted plantations.Read in context ›
Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #734 (Milman edition) — public domain
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