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The decline of the West, Volume 2

Note 148 — Chapter IV · CITIES AND PEOPLES (A) THE SOUL OF THE CITY

Charles Francis Atkinson translation

Friedländer, Sittengeschichte Roms, I, p. 5. Compare this with Samarra, which had nothing like this population. The “Late Classical city on Arabian soil was un-Classical in this respect as in others. The garden suburb of Antioch was renowned throughout the East.”

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