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Often appears with: phrygia · ostrogoths · mobilization and recruitment · gainas · conquest, plunder, and captives · civil war and rebellion
Usually: narrative (1) · crisis of belief (1) · detachment (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
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…