Inter monumenta tamen multiformium aerumnarum, eminuere Nicomediae clades, Bithyniae urbium matris, cuius ruinarum eventum vere breviterque absolvam.
Now among the instances of manifold disaster was pre-eminent the collapse of Nicomedia, the metropolis of Bithynia; and of the misfortune of its destruction I shall give a true and concise account,
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