Note 023
From Chapter 30 of the Decline & Fall

Jornandes, c. 29, p. 651 [ed. Grot. 1655; p. 81, ed. Lugd. B. 1597]. The Gothic historian adds, with unusual spirit,

Cum suis deliberans suasit suo labore quaerere regna, quam alienis per otium subjacere.
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