Note 052
From Chapter 30 of the Decline & Fall

Taceo de Alarico . . . sarpe victo, saepe concluso, semperque dimisso. Orosius, 1. vii. c. 37, p. 567.

Claudian (vi. Cons. Hon. 320) drops the curtain with a fine image.

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