...urged with vigor and- diligence, "horrible balls of fire," says the historian Ammianus Marcellinus, " breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and...inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen," and the undertaking was abandoned. Gibbon, after mentioning the writers who give the account, says, " Such...

...of the province, urged with vigour and diligence the execution of the work, horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations with frequent and...victorious element continuing in this manner, obstinately bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned." Such authority, Gibbon...

...foundations, with frequent nnd reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible to th>? scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious...resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was entirely abandoned." Julian, as a pagan, was a slave to the most bigoted superstition,...

...horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and repeated attacks, made the place from time to time inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen, and the victorious element continued in this manner absolutely and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, so...

...the province, urged, with vigour and diligence, the execution of the work, horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and...resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned.' Such authority should satisfy a believing, and must astonish an incredulous,...

...of the province, urged, with vigor and diligence, the execution of the work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and...rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to I he scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious element continuing in this manner obstinately...

...and diligence the execution of the work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundation«, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the...and the victorious element continuing in this manner absolutely and resolutely bent, as it wert-, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned."...

...of the province, urged with vigour and diligence the execution of the work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and...inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen : and the XXlll. I. victorious element continuing in this manner obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were,...

...of the province, urged with vigor and diligence the execution of tho work, horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from timo to time. inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen. ; and, the victorious element continuing...

...had all the assistance that the governor of the province could afford him, horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and...were, to drive them to a distance — Alypius thought best to give over the enterprise." — Warlurtori's Works, vol. viii. Book I. Whilst these events were...