 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 506 pages
...Under the reign of Anastasius, this popular frenzy was inflamed by religious zeal; and the greens, who had treacherously concealed stones and daggers...baskets of fruit, massacred, at a solemn festival, three thousand of their blue adversaries.44 From the capital, this pestilence was diffused into the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 pages
...Under the reign of Anastasius, this popular frenzy was inflamed by religious zeal; and the greens, who had treacherously concealed stones and daggers...baskets of fruit, massacred, at a solemn festival, three thousand of their blue adversaries. From the capital, this pestilence was diffused into the provinces... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1839 - 532 pages
...something criminal if they deserted the persuasion which they had once embraced? lust. l. 12. c. 2. 31 Ou the religious and civil factions of Constantinople,...reign of Justinian, in which both factions engaged, the Blues signalized the fury of their repentance; and it is computed that above 30,000 persons were... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 440 pages
...the reign of Anastasius, this popular frenzy was in- "•* flamed by religious zeal ; and the greens, who had treacherously concealed stones and daggers...under baskets of fruit, massacred at a solemn festival three thousand of their blue adversaries." From the capital this pestilence was diffused into the provinces... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1857 - 720 pages
...Under the reign of Anastasius, this popular frenzy was inflamed by religious zeal; and the greens, who had treacherously concealed stones and daggers...a solemn festival 3000 of their blue adversaries. From the capital this pestilence was diffused into the provinces and cities of the East, and the sportive... | |
 | Joseph J. Reed - 1862 - 196 pages
...hippodrome. Under the reign of Anastasius this popular frenzy was inflamed by religious zeal; and the greens, who had treacherously concealed stones and daggers...baskets of fruit, massacred, at a solemn festival, three thousand of their blue adversaries. From the capital this pestilence was diffused into the provinces... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 pages
...the reign of Anastasius the popular frenzy broke forth in violence and bloodshed ; and the greens, who had treacherously concealed stones and daggers...baskets of fruit, massacred, at a solemn festival, three thousand of their blue adversaries; the hippodrome was burnt and great damage was done to the... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1870 - 524 pages
...Under the reign of Anastasius, this popular frenzy was inflamed by religious zeal ; and the greens, who had treacherously concealed stones and daggers...under baskets of fruit, massacred at a solemn festival three thousand of their blue adversaries. From the capital this pestilence was diffused into the provinces... | |
 | Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - 1871 - 506 pages
...Under the reign of Anastasius, this popular frenzy was inflamed by religious zeal; and the greens, who had treacherously concealed stones and daggers...under baskets of fruit, massacred at a solemn festival three thousand of their blue adversaries. From the capital this pestilence was diffused into the provinces... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 666 pages
...Under the reign of Anastasius, this popular frenzy was inflamed by religious zeal ; and the greens, who had treacherously concealed stones and daggers...baskets of fruit, massacred, at a solemn festival, three thousand of their blue adversaries.44 From the capital, this pestilence was diffused u The four... | |
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Constantinople adopted the follies, though not the virtues, of ancient Rome ; and the same factions which had agitated the circus raged with redoubled fury in the hippodrome. Under the reign of Anastasius, this popular frenzy was inflamed by religious... 
