Chapter VIII: Preface (8)

[81] ‘Bellorum quidem amator, sed ipse manu temperans.’

[82] Suidas.

[83] ‘Turba regum’ (Jordanes xxxviii). Compare the story of Talma playing to a _parquet_ of Kings in the days of Napoleon.

[84] ‘Bellum atrox, multiplex, immane, pertinax.’ Jordanes xl.

[85] Jordanes.

[86] By Procopius, de Bello Vandal. i. 2.

[87] As suggested by Papencordt, Geschichte der Vandalen, p. 339.

[88] Idatius. ‘Alani et Wandali et Suevi Hispanias ingressi: alii quarto Kalendas [28 Sept.], alii tertio Idus Octobris [13 Oct.] memorant die, tertiâ feriâ.’ Tillemont points out that the 28th September in that year fell on a Tuesday, but the 13th October on a Wednesday. Very likely the fifteen days’ difference between the two calculations denotes the interval between the passage of the van and the rear of the invading host.

[89] Often called Genseric by modern historians, but there is no doubt that Gaiseric is the more correct form of the name, and it is the one now generally adopted by German scholars.

[90] Procopius.

[91] Professor Freeman, in the English Historical Review for July, 1887.

[92] The date commonly given is 429, but there are authorities also for 427 and 428, and upon the whole this last date appears the most probable.

[93] Procopius asserts this.

[94] This character is chiefly taken from Jordanes, cap. 33.

[95] Procopius.

[96] Idatius mentions this report: ‘Gaisericus qui, ut aliquorum relatio habet, effectus apostata de fide Catholicâ, in Arianam dictus est transisse perfidiam.’

[97] Marcellinus Comes, s. a. 454.

[98] Or possibly Carpilio. We are not quite sure of the name.

[99] Or Accila and Trasila (Continuator Prosperi). Trasila is here said to have been a son-in-law of Aetius.

[100] ‘Insperatis et inopinatis ictibus confoderunt.’

[101] Prosper.

[102] We are not distinctly told that the fleet of Gaiseric lay at anchor off Portus, but this is rather more probable than that they were at Ostia. It is quite possible, however, that the fleet may have been divided between the two ports when it was plain that there was to be no opposition. This would enable the Vandals to load much more cargo during the fourteen days, which on any hypothesis seems rather a short time for the immense amount of business transacted in them.

INDEX.

_(Modern place-names in Italics._)

A.

Ad Salices (the Willows), battle of, 94.

Aemona (_Laybach_), 127, 131, 153.

Aequitius, Superintendent of the Palace, 100.

Aetius, 178, 191-210, 225, 226.

Agathias, 40 _n._, 41 _n._

Agentes in Rebus, 42.

Alamanni, 25, 74.

Alani, 124, 152, 182, 196, 206.

Alaric, 131, 137-168.

Alatheus the Ostrogoth, 96, 97.

Alavivus, 87, 91.

Ambrose, St., 122.

Ammianus Marcellinus, 45, 47, 49, 102, 124.

Angles, 183.

Anianus, Bishop of Paris, 194.

Antioch, 23, 118-120.

Aquileia—besieged by Attila, 198.

Arbogast, 110, 128-132.

Arcadius, 36 _n._, 117, 134, 141, 142, 153, 155.

Ardaburius the Alan, 177.

Ardaric, King of the Gepidae, 196.

Arian controversy, 31.

Ariminum, plains of, 164, 172.

Aristocracy of Rome, not theoretically hereditary, 8;
manners of, in fourth century, 47-48.

Armogast, Count, 224.

Army, Roman, size of, in the fourth century, 39-40.

Ascholius, Bishop of Thessalonica, 109.

Aspar the Alan, 177.

Ataulfus, 172-175, 208.

Athanaric (Judge of the Visigoths), 79, 86, 111, 112.

Attalus, 162-164, 174.

Attila, King of the Huns, 180-203.

Augustine, St., 216.

Augustus, work of, 14.

B.

Bacurius, 131.

Baltic, the, 183, 184.

Barbaricum, 76, 79.

Barritus, the, 94.

Batvin (Gothic martyr), 79.

Bauto, the Frank, 110, 128, 142.

Bleda, King of the Huns, 180.

Bonifacius, Governor of Africa, 179, 209-214.

Bora, a fierce wind, 131.

Botheric, 121.

Bretons, the, 196.

Britain, invasion of by Angles and Saxons, 183-184.

Britain, Roman roads in, 2-4.

Brutus, 12.

Burgundians, the, 180, 196.

Busentus, the, Alaric buried in, 168.