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of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Hosein was a grandson of Mohammed, founder of the faith that bears his name.]

[Footnote 73: Babylonia.]

[Footnote 74: The Roman emperor still retained the title of Caesar.]

[Footnote 75: Chosroes is better known in our day as Phusrau, one of the kings of Persia.]

[Footnote 76: The reputed founder of the Mohammedan sect called Yezidis.]

[Footnote 77: From the final chapter of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."]

[Footnote 78: A Tuscan author and antiquarian, born in 1381, died in 1495; at one time secretary of the papal curia; author of a history of Florence, but chiefly remembered for having recovered works in Roman literature, including eight orations of Cicero.]

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