Note 028
Antonin. in Proem. - Epist. Cardinal. Isidor.
apud Spondanum and Dr. Johnson, in the tragedy of Irene, has
happily seized this characteristic circumstance: -
The groaning Greeks dig up the golden caverns.
The accumulated wealth of hoarding ages;
That wealth which, granted to their weeping prince,
Had rang'd embattled nations at their gates.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 68