...Burgundians ; the northern part, where the Teutonic language was spoken, acknowledged the Allemani for its masters. . Rhetia, comprehending the Tyrol,...the period during which the condition of the human nice was most calamitous, was undoubtedly that from the death of Theodosius the Great to the establishment...

...Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" : vol. i, chap. 2. Bury edition, p. 78) : "If a man were called to fix the period during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian...

...previously that the first sentence above is an exact echo of one from Robertson, dealing with a subsequent period 'during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted'.77 It needs also to be stressed that during the Antonine moment nothing maintains human...