Note 029
3RD Cause of the Destruction of Rome From Chapter 71 of the Decline & Fall

For the spoils of Ravenna (musiva atque marmora) see the original grant of Pope Adrian I. to Charlemagne (Codex Carolin. epist. lxvii. in Muratori, Script. Ital. tom. iii. P. ii. p. 223).