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Couldn't agree more. Gibbons was a great writer, and I've read his work "The Decline and fall" twice through. His definitive, and detailed information about everything from the Antonines to the barbarian emperors really paint a clear picture of current events of that time.
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I think the language was a bit superfluous, he could have afforded to been more concise. Then again he was writing for a different type of readership.