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

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                                         1. “Sad
                                         2. “with all
                                         3. “regret.”
   1.                                 118

   2. + Some of these “loose invectives”
   3. are very noble and lofty –
   4. “Πολλῶν γὰρ καὶ δεινῶν ὄντων ἐφ’
   5. “οἷς ἐκεῖνος μισεῖσθαι δίκαιος, οὐκ
   6. “ἔστιν ὅτι μᾶλλον ἢ τοῦτο” – the e-
   7. dict – “παρανομήσας φαίνεται.”
    8. And also,
     9. “Τὰ μὲν ἄλλα παρῆκα τοῖς βου-
   10. “λομένοις πλοῦτον, εὐγένειαν, εὔκλειαν,

   11. “δυναστείαν, ἃ τῆς κάτω περιφο-
   12. “ρᾶς εστι, καὶ ὀνειρώδους τέρψεως.
   13. “Τοῦ λόγου δὲ περιέχομαι μόνου”.
   14. No artist – the word is not
   15. misplaced here – had spoken so
   16. boldly before – “ἃ τῆς κάτω περι-
   17. φορᾶς εστι.” –
   18.                      C.
   1.                         248

   2. + Gibbon is prejudiced in fa-
   3. vour of Valentinian and has
   4. not much patience with Pro-
   5. copius. Still I do not see the
   6. fitness of such terms as “guilty
   7. “scene” and the often-repeated
   8. “usurper”. Procopius was no

   9. more a usurper than Valen-
   10. tinian, or Jovian, or even Julian.
   11. The right of appointing the em-
   12. peror was vested by the Ro-
   13. man constitution in the Se-

   14. nate. Subsequently, through
   15. habit – not law – a lawful
   16. and reigning emperor might
   17. appoint a colleague & successor.

   18. Valentinian, Jovian, and Julian
   19. ascended the throne in defi-
   1. ance of these laws and cus-
   2. toms. Valentinian was elected
   3. by the troops of Asia Minor, Jovian
   4. was elected by the miserable
   5. remains of Julian’s army,
   6. Julian was elected by the

   7. legions of Gaul. Procopius, in
   8. his turn, was appointed by
   9. the troops of Constantinople.
   10. He had therefore as legal a
   11. right to the imperial dignity

   12. as his adversaries Valentinian
   13. and Valens, whom Gibbon
   14. quite improperly parades as
   15. lawful sovereigns. –
   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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22 x 13.5 cm; 4 s.p. + IX p. + 443 p. + 5 s.p. + 2 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. 90, 91, 112, 225, 249. C. P. Cavafy’s handwritten notes in black ink inserted between p. 112-113 and 248-249 regarding traits of the text, where he signs as “C.”. Reading trace with pencil on p. 413. P. 443 colophon.

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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.