Tyber invasion

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Often appears with: naval warfare and sea power · heraclian · conspiracy and assassination · conquest, plunder, and captives · carthage · africa

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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. > part of the husband’s substance. Some cautious maidens, indeed, (3/8)

Honorius’s brief calm is shattered by Heraclian’s usurpation from Africa, his large fleet sails to invade Italy, is routed, and is executed while Honorius remains in Ravenna’s palace.

Erige crinales lauros, seniumque sacrati Verticis in virides, Roma, recinge comas, &c.] This apparent tranquillity was soon disturbed by the approach of a hostile armament from the country which afforded the daily subsistence of the Roman people. Heraclian, count of Africa, who, under the most difficult and distressful circumstances, had supported, with active loyalty, the cause of Honorius, …