Siege of hippo

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Often appears with: st. augustine · siege and fortification · religious persecution and toleration · courage and cowardice · boniface at hippo regius · augustine’s theology

Usually: narrative (1) · confronting death (1) · wonder (1)

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 secondary

Edward Gibbon · 1782 (written); 1845 (revised)
Chapter XXVII: Civil Wars, Reign Of Theodosius.—Part I. > Chapter XXXIII: Conquest Of Africa By The Vandals.—Part I. (10/11)

Count Boniface retreats to Hippo Regius after a battle, where St. Augustine aids him during a prolonged siege; Gibbon then reflects on Augustine’s zeal, writings, and theology before describing Hippo’s destruction.

c. 1, 2, 3, edit. Ruinart.) The last picture, which was drawn sixty years after the event, is more expressive of the author’s passions than of the truth of facts.] The generous mind of Count Boniface was tortured by the exquisite distress of beholding the ruin which he had occasioned, and whose rapid progress he was unable to check. After the loss of a battle he retired into Hippo Regius; where he …