RODERICK,

THE LAST OF THE GOTHS.

BY

ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq.

POET LAUREATE,

AND

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY,
OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY OF HISTORY, AND OF
THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF THE NETHERLANDS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

FIFTH EDITION.

LONDON:

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Tanto acrior apud majores, sicut virtutibus gloria, ita flagitiis pœnitentia, fuit. Sed hæc aliaque, ex veteri memoriâ petita, quotiens res locusque exempla recti, aut solatia mali, poscet, haud absurdè memorabimus.

TACITI Hist. lib. 3. c. 51.

AYLOR

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