Note 007
'General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire In The West' — Gibbon's "Decline & Fall"

The prudent reader will determine how far this general proposition is weakened by the revolt of the Isaurians, the independence of Britain and Armorica, the Moorish tribes, or the Bagaudae of Gaul and Spain (vol. i. p. 414, vol. iv. pp. 130, 78, 252).