Note 031
Gens Austriae membrorum pre-eminentiâ valida, et gens Germana corde et corpore praestantissima, quasi in ictû oculi, manû ferreâ, et pectore arduo, Arabes extinxerunt, (Roderic. Toletan. c. xiv.)

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 52