...I first approached and entered the eternal city. After a sleepless night I trod with lofty step the ruins of the forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke or Caesar fell was at once present to my eye.'" The quasi-religious nature of the sceptic Gibbon's language here is striking....

...first approached and entered the eternal city. After a sleepness night, I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully [Cicero] spoke, or Caeesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were...

...Forum in 1764, eleven years before the publication of the first volume of the Decline and Fall, "where each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye," was prepared for by "a plan of study for the use of my Transalpine expedition."...

...unusually knowledgeable and avid tourist, studied for eighteen weeks.23 He wrote that he "trod . . . the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye."24 The course that Byres gave Powel and Morgan some months earlier, in which...

...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 'After a sleepless night,' he wrote, 'I trod with a lofty step the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot, where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell (how strange that Gibbon of all men should have made this error!), was at once present to my eye.'...

...Empire, while wandering through the Forum: After a sleepless night, I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend...

...first approached and entered the eternal City. After a sleepless night I trod with a lofty step the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend...

...Gibbon's response to Rome just five months earlier: After a sleepless night I trod with a lofty step the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell . . . and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute...

...first approached and entered the eternal City. After a sleepless night, I trod with a lofty step the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend...

...produced by his first visit to the forum. ' After a sleepless night, I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins of the Forum ; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye.' 1015. every lawless soldier] The later years of the Western empire were marked...