"The Emperor Nepos was acknowledged by the "Senate, by the Italians, and by the Provincials of "Gaul; his moral virtues, and military talents, were "loudly celebrated; and those who derived any pri"vate benefit from his government, announced in "prophetic strains the restoration of public felicity. "By this shameful abdication, he protracted his life "a few years, in a very ambiguous state, between an Gibbon's Decline and Fall, vol. 6, p. 220. |