Wednesday, July 08, 2020
The Capacious Bosom of Rome
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter XV:
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A perpetual stream of strangers and provincials flowed into the capacious bosom of Rome. Whatever was strange or odious, whoever was guilty or suspected, might hope, in the obscurity of that immense capital, to elude the vigilance of the law. In such a various conflux of nations, every teacher, either of truth or of falsehood, every founder, whether of a virtuous or a criminal association, might easily multiply his disciples or accomplices.
