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Often appears with: visigoths · vandals · tribigild revolt · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · phrygia · mobilization and recruitment · gainas · franks · empire and the rule of provinces · conversion and faith · conquest, plunder, and captives · civil war and rebellion
Usually: detachment (2) · argument (1) · narrative (1) · crisis of belief (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1)
“The edicts of Arcadius most positively and most absurdly declares, that in such cases of treason, thoughts and actions ought to be punished with equal severity; that the knowledge of a mischievous intention, unless it be instantly revealed, becomes equally criminal with the intention itself.” Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · insight
“This salutary revolution 126 was hastened by the example of a royal martyr, whom our calmer reason may style an ungrateful rebel.” Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · insight
Despite Arcadius’s terror laws, Tribigild’s Ostrogoth rebellion spreads through Phrygia and Asia Minor, prompting a war council, leading to defeats and maneuvering between Eutropius’s officials (Gainas, Leo) and the rebels’ demands.
17 (return) [ Zosimus, l. v. p. 300. Yet he seems to suspect that this rumor was spread by the friends of Eutropius.] The public hatred, and the despair of individuals, continually threatened, or seemed to threaten, the personal safety of Eutropius; as well as of the numerous adherents, who were attached to his fortune, and had been promoted by his venal favor. For their mutual defence, he co…
Gibbon claims that Arianism persisted among the Vandals and Ostrogoths until their kingdoms’ collapse, while Gaul submitted to Frankish rule and Spain returned to Catholicism through the Visigoths’ voluntary conversion.
Africa and Italy. The Barbarians of Gaul submitted to the orthodox dominion of the Franks; and Spain was restored to the Catholic church by the voluntary conversion of the Visigoths. This salutary revolution 126 was hastened by the example of a royal martyr, whom our calmer reason may style an ungrateful rebel. Leovigild, the Gothic monarch of Spain, deserved the respect of his enemies, and the lov…