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Edward Gibbon: "Pada jam tengah malam, gerbang Salerian dibuka dengan...

"Pada jam tengah malam, gerbang Salerian dibuka dengan diam-diam, dan penduduknya terbangun oleh suara luar biasa dari terompet gothic. Sebelas ratus enam puluh tiga tahun setelah berdirinya Roma, kota Kekaisaran, yang telah menundukkan dan membudayakan begitu banyak bagian umat manusia, dikirim ke amarah bermoral dari suku-suku Jerman dan Scythia."

--- Edward Gibbon

Versi Bahasa Inggris

At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.