Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. V. London, Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies […], 1820

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1. a 2. beautiful 3. image
   1. + “Δαίμων τις φαινόμενος με-

   2. “λας, καὶ κωλύων τῆς φλογὸς τὴν
   3. “ἐνέργειαν.”

   4. But the daemon who could
   5. resist fire – it was after all

   6. his own element – was help-
   7. less against holy water.

   8. “Ὕδωρ κομισθῆναι προστάξας
   9. “(ὁ Μάρκελλος) ἔθηκε μὲν τὸ ὕ-

V10. “δωρ ὑπὸ τὸ θεῖον θυσιαστήριον
   11. “…. Ἐπιθεὶς τοῦ σταυροῦ τὸν

   12. “τύπον τῷ ὕδατι….. λαβεῖν…..
   13. “ἐκέλευσε, καὶ διὰ τάχους δρα-

   14. “μεῖν, καὶ μετὰ πίστεως διαρρᾶναι,
   15. “καὶ τὴν φλόγα προσενεγκεῖν. Οὕ-

   16. “τω τούτου γενομένου ἀπέδραμεν
   17. “ὁ δαίμων μὴ ἐνεγκὼν τὴν

   18. “τοῦ ὕδατος προσβολήν.”
       1. Theodoret adds that Mar-
     2. cellus’ water kindled the
     3. fire like oil. –
   4.                    C.F.C.
   1. + Eunapius accuses (Vit. Max.) the
   2. monks or Christian priests of having
   3. been privy to the treacherous sur-
   4. render of Greece; and it is a
   5. matter for considerable surprise
   6. that Gibbon did not quote the
   7. curious passage:

   8. “Τοιαύτας αὐτῷ (τῷ Ἀλλαρίχῳ) τὰς
   9. “πύλας ἀπέδειξε τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἡ
   10. “τῶν τὰ φαιὰ ἱμάτια ἐχόντων ἀκω-
   11. “λύτως προσπαρεισελθοῦσα ἀσέβεια.”
   12. It is true that the words of
   13. Eunapius do not carry any extra-

   14. ordinary weight. Certain doubtful
   15. remarks of Zosimus about the
   16. respectable (pagan?) Antiochus,
   17. his two good (pagan?) sons Muso-
   1. nius & Antiochus, & his bad (Christ-
   2. ian?) son Antiochus; and the
   3. fact that the great majority of
   4. the inhabitants of Greece proper
   5. were pagans, is all the extraneous
   6. evidence that comes to corrobo-
   7. rate Eunapius’ accusation. But
   8. it is insufficient, and the accu-
   9. sation can be disregarded.
   10. Still we are not used to
   11. so much    12. ~~some~~ favour – or justice – to
   13. the Christian cause from the
   14. pen of Gibbon. –
   15.                   C.
   1. + The subject for a beautiful
   2. sonnet, a sonnet full of sadness.
   3. Such as Verlaine would
   4. write –
   5. “Je suis l'empire à la fin de la décadence”.
   6. Lost in the Gothic tumult and
   7. utterly bewildered, a melancholy
   8. emperor playing on the flute. An
   9. absurd emperor bustled in the
   10. crowd. Much applauded and
   11. much laughed at. And perhaps

   12. at times singing a touching song
   13. – some reminiscence of Ionia,
   14. and of the days when the
   15. gods were not yet dead. –
   16.                        C.

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Gibbon, Edward

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T. Cadell and W. Davies, F. C. and J. Rivington, J. Cuthell, J. Nunn, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, John Richardson, J. M. Richardson, Jeffery and Son, J. and A. Arch, J. and W. Clarke, Black and Co, S. Bagster, W. Stewart, Hatchard and Son, W. Ginger, J. Mawman, R. Scholey, Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, J. Asperne, T. Hamilton, J. Bohn, J. Ebers, R. Saunders, G. Greenland, Olge and Co, G. and W. B. Whittaker, Taylor and Hessey, Simpkin and Marshall, Rodwell and Martin, C. Taylor, Isaac Sheldon, W. Wood, Lloyd and Son, G. Mackie and J. Parker, Fairbairn and Anderson

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1820

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Oxford (England)

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22 x 13.5 cm; 4 s.p. + VIII p. + 432 p. + 2 s.p. + 3 inserts, label with the name of the former owner on verso of the front cover: “Mr. Thomas Bell”. On l. 1 bookplate CPC on recto, p. [Ι] title page, p. [ΙΙ] typographical data and p. [III]-VIII “Contents”. Pencil marks on p. 106, 179, 335. C. P. Cavafy’s handwritten notes in black ink inserted between p. 106-107, 178-179 and 334-335 regarding traits of the text, where he signs as “C.F.C” on the first one and as “C.” on the other two. Reading trace and underlining with pencil on p. 401. P. 432 colophon.

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Thomas Bell

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Bell, Thomas

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The inserts and handwritten notes found in Edward Gibbon’s volumes were transcribed for the first time by Diana Haas. See Diana Haas, “Cavafy’s reading notes on Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall”, Folia Neohellenica 4 (1982), 25-96.