Note 003
From Chapter 68 of the Decline & Fall

Quinque linguas praeter suam noverat, Graecam, Latinam, Chaldaicam, Persicam.

The Latin translator of Phranza has dropped the Arabic, which the Koran must recommend to every Mussulman.

Extra note by the Rev. H. H. Milman 1782 (Written), 1845 (Revised) —It appears in the original Greek text, p. 95, edit. Bonn.

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