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A46415 The history of Iustine taken out of the four and forty books of Trogus Pompeius contaning [sic] the affairs of all ages and countrys, both in peace and war, from the beginning of the world untill the time of the Roman emperors : together with the epitomie of the lives and manners of the Roman emperors from Octavius Augustus Cæsar to the Emperor Theodosius / translated into English by Robert Codrington ...; Historiae Philippicae. English Justinus, Marcus Junianus.; Trogus, Pompeius.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665. 1654 (1654) Wing J1271; ESTC R21545 258,396 656

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