Note 008 Voltaire, Hist. de Charles XII. 1. iii. When the Austrians desired the aid of the court of Rome against Gustavus Adolphus, they always represented that conqueror as the lineal successor of Alaric. Harte's Hist. of Gustavus, vol. ii. p. 123.

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Note to Chapter 10 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon