Note 028
From Chapter 30 of the Decline & Fall

Tantum Romanae urbis judicium fugis, ut magis obsidionem barbaricam, quam pacate urbis judicium velis sustinere. Jerom, tom. ii. p. 239.

Rufinus understood his own danger; the peaceful city was inflamed by the beldam Marcella, and the rest of Jerom's faction.

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