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Often appears with: conquest, plunder, and captives · visigoths · strategy and the aims of war · roman gaul · odoacer · franks · euric · empire and the rule of provinces · diplomacy and embassies · alemanni
Usually: narrative (1) · reflection (1) · detachment (1) · indignation (1)
Gibbon links civil-discord decisions in Gaul to barbarian devastation, describing how Constantius’s actions invited Franks and Alemanni across the Rhine, leading to pillaging and fortified river settlements.
the merit and disgrace of Ursicinus with that faithful attention which a soldier owed to his general. Some partiality may be suspected, yet the whole account is consistent and probable.] 63 (return) [ Ammian. xx. 11. Omisso vano incepto, hiematurus Antiochiæ redit in Syriam ærumnosam, perpessus et ulcerum sed et atrocia, diuque deflenda. It is *thus* that James Gronovius has restored an obscure pas…
After Odoacer ends the Western empire, he negotiates with Euric, king of the Visigoths, ceding Roman lands beyond the Alps to him; Gibbon frames Euric’s rise as shaping events across France.
4 (return) [ Sidonius Apollinaris ridicules, with affected wit and pleasantry, the hardships of his situation, (Carm. xii. in tom. i. p. 811.)] As soon as Odoacer had extinguished the Western empire, he sought the friendship of the most powerful of the Barbarians. The new sovereign of Italy resigned to Euric, king of the Visigoths, all the Roman conquests beyond the Alps, as far as the Rhine and th…