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A27492 The lives of the Roman emperors from Domitian, where Suetonius ends, to Constantine the Great containing those of Nerva and Trajan from Dion Cassius : a translation of the six writers of the Augustéan history and those of Dioclesian and his associates from Eusebius and others by John Bernard ... Bernard, John. 1698 (1698) Wing B2003; ESTC R2224 420,412 899

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