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Hat hapned in the Roman Empire, in its Wars with the Barbarous Nations, I suppose I have exactly de­scribed, and the order which I have observed, is so just, every Action and Accident is to be found with its proper, and due Circumstances, both of time and of place. In what I am now about, I do not hold my self bound to so strict a me­thod, because the subject is of things which passed in several places of the Roman Empire at the same time. When I writ my first Histories, I thought it not expedient to be too particular, by reason the main Agents were then living; and I could not long have concealed, or secured Rh