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" The ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero, whose valour and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour of a captive multitude they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus, a small river... "
History of the Christian Church, from the first to the fifteenth century - Page 68
by Thomas Burr Sikes - 1885 - 303 pages
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Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County ..., Volume 15

Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - 1911 - 988 pages
...followers determined that his Roman enemies should never obtain his remains nor insult them. "By the labor of a captive ^multitude, they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus, a small river. The royal sepuichre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the...
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The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook

James Harvey Robinson - 1912 - 442 pages
...the funeral of the hero, whose valor and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labor of a captive multitude they forcibly diverted the...river that washes the walls of Consentia. The royal sepulcher, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed;...
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Naples and Southern Italy

Edward Hutton - 1915 - 392 pages
...ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero, whose valour and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour...they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus (Buxentius), a small river that washes the walls of Consentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the...
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Hydriotaphia

Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 180 pages
...multitude, they [the Goths] diverted the course 6f the Busentinus, a small river that washes the wall of Consentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed; the waters were then restored to their natural channel; and...
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Hydriotaphia

Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 174 pages
...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, xxx1. : "By the labour of a captive multitude, they [the Goths] diverted the course of the Busentinus, a small river that washes the wall of Consentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 3

Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 536 pages
...they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus, a small river that washes the walls of [Bu»ento] Consentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed ; the waters were then restored to their natural channel, and...
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Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials

Mrs. Hemans - 2000 - 682 pages
...ferocious character of the Barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero, whose valour and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour...sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed; the waters were then restored to their natural channel, and...
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A Book of Ballads on German History

Wilhelm Wagner - 2019 - 184 pages
...ferocious character of the Barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero, whose valour and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour...Busentinus, a small river that washes the walls of Consentía. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 137

1866 - 516 pages
...applause. By the labour of a captive multitude, they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinas, a small river that washes the walls of Consentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid toils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed ; the waters were then restored to their...
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The Great Events by Famous Historians: A Comprehensive and Readable Account ...

Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - 1905 - 438 pages
...the funeral of a hero whose valor and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labor of a captive multitude, they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus, 1 " The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields ; With grim...
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