Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 462
tspersonifications, its classical architecture, its pastoral landscapes, shouldreproduce in a later age the picturesque sentiment of ancient Alexandria;it was this very age which preserved for us the greater number of ourclassical Greek texts. In the general progress of the empire betweenthe ninth… … Fig. 258. Paul on the road to Damascus : miniature of the seventh century in the VaticanMS. of Cosmas Indicopleustes. (Hautcs Etudes : G. Millet.) P. 447. of time between the fourth and the ninth centuries was still not wideenough to prevent the maintenance in a conservative society of an…
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