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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: course, when he passed from Troy to Italy.
v. 5. A hundred years twice told and more.] The Emperor
Constantine entered Byzantium in 324, and Justinian began his
reign in 527.
v. 6. At Europe's extreme point.] Constantinople being situated
at the extreme of Europe, and on the borders of Asia, near those
mountains
in the neighbourhood of Troy, from whence the first founders of
Rome had emigrated.
v. 13. To clear th' incumber'd laws.] The code of laws was
abridged and reformed by Justinian.
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