The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 8
The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 8
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
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The supine ignorance of the nobles was incapable of discerning the serious tendency of such representa- tions: they might sometimes chastise with words and blows the plebeian reformer ; but he was often suffered in the Colonna palace to amuse the company with his threats and predictions ; and the modern Brutus ** was concealed under the mask of folly and the character of a buffoon. While they indulged their contempt, the restoration of the good estate, his favourite expression, was entertained ...among the people as a desirable, a possible, and at length as an approaching, event ; and while all had the disposition to applaud, some had the courage to assist, their promised deliverer. A prophecy, or rather a summons, affixed on the church door of St George, was the first public evidence of his designs, — a haimum nocturnal assembly of an hundred citizens on Mount Aven- ^nfoY™" tine, the first step to their execution. After an oath of f^^t, secrecy and aid, he represented to the conspirators the Ma ?
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