Note 058
From Chapter 43 of the Decline & Fall

A still greater number was consumed by famine in the southern provinces, without Ancient Greekthe Ionian Gulf. Acorns were used in the place of bread. Procopius had seen a deserted orphan suckled by a she-goat. Seventeen passengers were lodged, murdered, and eaten, by two women, who were detected and slain by the eighteenth, etc.

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