The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶63
The Africanus of new Rome was born, and perhaps educated, among the Thracian peasants, without any of those advantages which had formed the virtues of the elder and younger Scipio; a noble origin, liberal studies, and the emulation of a free state.Read in context ›
Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #734 (Milman edition) — public domain
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