"It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October,……" — Edward Gibbon

"It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind."

Edward Gibbon

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