Note 032
From Chapter 38 of the Decline & Fall

Gregory (1. ii. c. 40-43, in tom. ii. p. 183-185), after coolly relating the repeated crimes and affected remorse of Clovis, concludes, perhaps undesignedly, with a lesson which ambition will never hear — "His ita transactis . . . obiit. "

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