Note 099
From Chapter 53 of the Decline & Fall

Abulpharagius assigns the 7th Dynasty to the Franks or Romans, the 8th to the Greeks, the 9th to the Arabs.

A tempore Augusti Caesaris donec imperaret Tiberius Caesar spatio circiter annorum 600 fuerunt Imperatores C. P. Patricii, et praecipua pars exercitus Romani: extra quod, conciliarii, scribae et populus, omnes Graeci fuerunt: deinde regnum etiam Graecanicum factum est (p. 96, vers. Pocock).

The Christian and ecclesiastical studies of Abulpharagius gave him some advantage over the more ignorant Moslems.

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