Edward Gibbon Quote

If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending prelates.


The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume the First (ed. 1776)


If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending...

If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending...

If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending...

If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending...