 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1899 - 724 pages
...reign of the younger llieodosius and the conquest of Africa by the Vandals.41 When the Emperor Dccius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus...concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain, where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1899 - 680 pages
...ecclesiastical history, I am tempted to distinguish the memorable fable of the SEVEN SLEEPERS , *3 whose imaginary date corresponds with the reign of...younger Theodosius, and the conquest of Africa by th« Vandals.44 When the emperor Decius persecuted the Chi is tians, seven noble youths of Ephesus... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1907 - 418 pages
...ecclesiastical history, I am tempted to distinguish the memorable fable of the SEVEN SLEEPEKS ; 45 whose imaginary date corresponds with the reign of...concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance... | |
 | Geology - 1910 - 436 pages
...transferred to Catholic saints and martyrs. The legend relates, 'that when Decius was still persecudng the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain, where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance... | |
 | Nasreddin Hoca (Legendary character) - 1924 - 302 pages
...sleepers of Ephesus." A legend told by Gibbon among others (Rise and Fall, chap. xxxi). It is said that when the Emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus hid themselves in a cave in the side of a hill, where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant who... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 536 pages
...ecclesiastical history, I am MT°nil"p*r* tempted to distinguish the memorable fable of the SEVEN SLEEPERS ; 45 whose imaginary date corresponds with the reign of...the younger Theodosius and the conquest of Africa by 48 The choice of fabulous circumstances is of small importance ; yet I have confined myself to the... | |
 | Rosamond McKitterick, Roland Quinault - History - 1997 - 56 pages
...year 439, Gibbon ended chapter 33 of Decline and fall by telling the 'memorable fable of the SEVEN SLEEPERS, whose imaginary date corresponds with the...younger Theodosius and the conquest of Africa by the Vandals'.1 Gibbon was not the last philosophic mind to feel the fascination of the story,2 and that... | |
 | 482 pages
...suppose, has his attention occupied by Minche. * seven sleepers] An allusion to a celebrated legend. When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians,...seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in the cavern of an adjacent mountain. There they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who commanded that... | |
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When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance should be... 
