TIONS AND FRONTIERS OF THE EASTERN EMPIRE.-VI. ABOLITION OF THR 482 or 483. Birth of the Emperor Justinian.. 518-527. Elevation and Reign of his Uncle Justin I... 520-527. Adoption and Succession of Justinian. 527-565. The Reign of Justinian. Character and Histories of Procopius. Division of the Reign of Justinian. ....... Fortifications of the Empire, from the Euxine to the Persian Frontier 459 488. Death of Perozes, King of Persia... CONQUESTS OF JUSTINIAN IN THE WEST.-CHARACTER AND FIRST CAMPAIGNS OF BELISARIUS. HE INVADES AND SUBDUES THE VANDAL KINGDOM OF AFRICA. HIS TRIUMPH.—THE GOTHIC WAR.—HE RECOVERS SICILY, NAPLES, AND ROME.-SIEGE OF ROME BY THE GOTHS.-THEIR RETREAT AND LOSSES. End of Gelimer and the Vandals Manners and Defeat of the Moors.. Neutrality of the Visigoths... 550-620, Conquests of the Romans in Spain.. 534. Belisarius threatens the Ostrogoths of Italy. 522-531. Government and Exile of Amalasontha, Queen of Italy Belisarius invades and subdues Sicily.. 534-536. Reign and Weakness of Theodatus, the Gothic King of Italy STATE OF THE BARBARIC WORLD. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LOMBARDS ON THE DANUBE.-TRIBES AND INROADS OF THE SCLAVONIANS.-ORIGIN, EM- PIRE, AND EMBASSIES OF THE TURKS.-THE FLIGHT OF THE AVARS.-CHOS- ROES I., OR NUSHIRVAN, KING OF PERSIA. HIS PROSPEROUS REIGN AND 569-582. 500-530. 545. Origin and Monarchy of the Turks in Asia. The Avars fly before the Turks, and approach the Empire... Embassies of the Turks and Romans And ruins Antioch. ....... REBELLIONS OF AFRICA.-RESTORATION OF THE GOTHIC KINGDOM BY TOTILA. -LOSS AND RECOVERY OF ROME.-FINAL CONQUEST OF ITALY BY NARSES. -EXTINCTION OF THE OSTROGOTHS. DEFEAT OF THE FRANKS AND ALE- MANNI. LAST VICTORY, DISGRACF, AND DEATH OF BELISARIUS. — DEATH AND CHARACTER OF JUSTINIAN.-COMETS, EARTHQUAKES, AND PLAGUE. 553. Defeat and Death of Teias, the last King of the Goths... Invasion of Italy by the Franks and Alemanni.. 554. Defeat of the Franks and Alemanni by Narses.. RORS. AUTHORITY OF THE CIVILIANS.CODE, PANDECTS, NOVELS, AND THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. CHAPTER XXXI. INVASION OF ITALY BY ALARIC.-MANNERS OF THE ROMAN SENATE AND PEOPLE.-ROME IS THRICE BESieged, and AT LENGTH PILLAGED, BY THE GOTHS.-DEATH OF ALARIC.THE GOTHS EVACUATE ITALY.-FALL OF CONSTANTINE.GAUL AND SPAIN ARE OCCUPIED BY THE BARBARIANS. INDEPENDENCE OF BRITAIN. THE incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance, and produce the effects. of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same meas ures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius.1 The king of the Goths would have conspired, per haps with some reluctance, to destroy the formidable adver sary, by whose arms, in Italy, as well as in Greece, he had been twice overthrown. Their active and interested hatred laboriously accomplished the disgrace and ruin of the great Stilicho. The valor of Sarus, his fame in arms, and his personal, or hereditary, influence over the confederate Barbarians, could recommend him only to the friends of their country, who despised, or detested, the worthless characters of Turpilio, Varanes, and Vigilantius. By the pressing instances of the new favorites, these generals, unworthy as 1 The series of events, from the death of Stilicho to the arrival of Alaric be fore Rome, can only be found in Zosimus, 1. v. pp. 347-350. (11) |