were-thrown

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The Armorican provinces of Gaul, and the greatest part of Spain, were-thrown into a state of disorderly independence, by the confederations of the Bagaudæ; and the Imperial ministers pursued with proscriptive laws, and ineffectual arms, the rebels whom they had made.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3