Earliest
Historical Reference
“He obviously drank deeply from
the libraries, museums, and archives of Constantinople, his Dissimilarian
spectacles bringing into focus a picture of the century
preceding that was very unlike the one painted by Rufinus, with
whom his own narrative, when he came to write it, was indeed
in frequent argument... It appeared sometime between 425 and 433,
in twelve books bound in two volumes, its proper period the years
from 320 to 425...”
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