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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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ALARIC THE BOLD 57 in Milan. In 402 a vast army under Stilicho met him at Pollentia ; and whenan old chieftain advised him to retire, Alaric, with fierce indignation, silencedhis timid counsellor, and told him that he had been assured by a voice whichcame from the grave and said to him, TIioji shalt penetrate to the City (adUrbeni). But the oracle on this occasion had paltered with him in a doublesense. He penetrated indeed ad Urbcm, not however to the City but to thelittle river Urbis (or Borbo), near PoUenzo. On Good Friday, April 4, 402.tne Western army, under a dwarfish Hun chieftain named Saulus, attacked androuted Alaric, recovering the splendid spoils of Greece, freeing his captives, andwinning back the purpie robes which the Emperor Valens had lost in the battleot Adrianople. In that disastrous defeat even the wife of Alaric, if we maybelieve the poet Claudian, was taken prisoner. Alaric retreated through Lombardy, and the feeble Emperor Honorius— acrowned nothingness —cel

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  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Horne__Charles_F___Charles_Francis___1870_1942
  • booksubject:Biography
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Selmar_Hess
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