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Title: A history of Rome
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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MAP SHOWING ^BARBARIAN INROADS ON THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Movements shown down to A.D. 4?? ENGLISH MILES 0 50 100 200 300 400 500 *—i i i . 10 Longitude East
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§159) THE PROHIBITION OF THE PAGAN CULTS 151 Asia. Scarcely had the fugitives been received within the limits ofthe Empire before a large company of their kinsmen, the Ostrogoths(Eastern Goths), also driven from their homes by the same terribleenemy, crowded to the banks of the Danube and pleaded that theyalso might be allowed to place the river between themselves and theirdreaded foe. But Valens, becoming alarmed at the presence of somany barbarians within his dominions, refused their request, where-upon they crossed the river with arms in their hands. Once within the Empire they, joined by their Visigothic kinsmen,soon began to overrun and ravage the Danubian provinces. Valensdispatched swift messengers to Gratian, emperor in the West, ask-ing for assistance; but without awaiting the arrival of the Westernlegions he imprudently risked a battle with the barbarians nearAdrianople. The Roman army was almost annihilated and Valenshimself was killed (378 a. d.). Gratian was hurrying to

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