Note 052
Quamdiu stabit Colyseus, stabit et Roma;
quando cadet Coly seus, cadet Roma; quando cadet Roma, cadet
et mundus, (Beda in Excerptis seu Collectaneis apud Ducange
Glossar. Med. et Infimae Latinitatis, tom. ii. p. 407, edit.
Basil.)
This saying must be ascribed to the Anglo-Saxon
pilgrims who visited Rome before the year 735 the aera of
Bede's death; for I do not believe that our venerable monk
ever passed the sea.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 71