"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 private benefit from his government, announced in prophetic strains the restoration of public felicity. 66 "By this shameful abdication, he protracted his life " a few years, in a very ambiguous state, between an Emperor and an Exile, till Gibbon's Decline and Fall, vol. 6, p. 220. |