 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 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 Bologna, Modena, Regium, and Placentia.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 440 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 Bologna, Modtna, Regium, and Placentia.b... | |
 | John Stonard - 1824 - 508 pages
...pestilence. St. Ambrose * Decline and Fall, vol. 6. p. 234. has deplored the ruin of a populous district, which had been once adorned with the flourishing cities of Bologna, Modena, Regium, and Placentia. Pope Gelasius was a subject of Odoacer; and he affirms with strong exaggeration, that in ./Emilia,... | |
 | John Stonard - Bible - 1824 - 512 pages
...pestilence. St. Ambrose * Decline and Fall, vol. C. p. 234. has deplored the ruin of a populous district, which had been once adorned with the flourishing cities of Bologna, Modena, Regium, and Placentia. Pope Gelasius was a subject of Odoacer; and he affirms with strong exaggeration, that in /Emilia, Tuscany,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 pages
...losses of war, famine, xxx ' 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. Pope Gelasius was a subject of Odoacer, and he affirms, with strong exaggeration, that in ^Emilia,... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 pages
...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 Bologna, Modena, Regium, and Placentia :" (which were either situated on its banks, or yielded their waters to the Po.) " Pope Gelasius was... | |
 | Alexander Keith - Bible - 1832 - 392 pages
...irretrievable losses of war, famine, and pestilence. St. Ambrose has deplored the rum of a popidous district, which had been once adorned with the flourishing cities of Bologna, Modena, Regium, and Placentia" (which were either situated on its banks, or yielded their waters to the Po). "Pope Gelasius was a... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 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 Bologna, Modena, Regium, and Placentia... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - Bible - 1844 - 466 pages
...of Egypt and Africa were withdrawn, and all 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 once been adorned with the flourishing cities of Bologna, Modena, Regium, and Placentia.... | |
 | sir Francis Palgrave - 1847 - 690 pages
...In the division and decline of the Empire 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 Bologna, Modena, Regium, and Flaccntia.... | |
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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... 
