Note 028
3RD Cause of the Destruction of Rome From Chapter 71 of the Decline & Fall

Omnia quae erant in aere ad ornatum civitatis deposuit, sed e ecclesiam B. Mariae ad martyres quae de tegulis aereis cooperta discooperuit (Anast. in Vitalian. p. 141).

The base and sacrilegious Greek had not even the poor pretence of plundering a heathen temple, the Pantheon was already a Catholic church.

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