text:  And what was the result? Why that the agriculture of Italy was destroyed--that 300 000 acres in the champaign of Naples alone reverted to a state of nature and were tenanted only by wild-boars and buffaloes before a single barbarian had crossed the Alps--that the Grecian cities were entirely maintained by grain from the plains of Podolia--and the mistress of the world according to the plaintive expression of the Roman annalist depended for her subsistence on the floods of the Nile