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The Sect of the Thirty
The original manuscript may be consulted in
the library at the University of Leyden; it is in
Latin, but its occasional Hellenism justifies the
conjecture that it may be a translation from the
Greek. According to Leisegang, it dates from
the fourth century of the Christian era; Gibbon
mentions it, in passing, in one of his notes to
the fifteenth chapter of The Decline and Fall.
These are the words of its anonymous author:
...The Sect was never large, but now its
followers are few indeed. Their number
decimated by sword and fire, they sleep by the
side of the road or in the ruins spared them by
war, as they are forbidden to build dwellings.
They often go about naked. The events my pen
describes are known to all men; my purpose
here is to leave a record of that which has been
given me to discover about their doctrine and