"'A word' of solemn warning was uttered by the Angel of
the Seven Spirits to the Church in Sardis....
"And this 'word' was fulfilled to the letter, for, as Herodotus
tells us, 'Sardis was taken and utterly sacked.'"--_Daily
Graphic_.
We fancy the passage must occur in Book X., in which we also find
the famous account of the capture of Timbuctoo by the Roman Emperor
Montezuma in the fourth Punic War--or was it the fifth Crusade?
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