But the Tactics of Leo and Constantine are mingled with the baser alloy of the age in which they lived. It was destitute of original genius; they implicitly transcribe the rules and maxims which had been confirmed by victories.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
by Edward Gibbon
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- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
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- Edward Gibbon
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