Note 054 Proculus, who was a native of Albengue on the Genoese coast, armed two thousand of his own slaves. His riches were great, but they were acquired by robbery. It was afterwards a saying of his family, sibi non placere esse vel principes vel latrones. Vopiscus in Hist. August. p. 247 [in Proculo, 13].

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Note to Chapter 12 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon