...imperatore, facto, our leave of that historian with some regret. infecto, refecto, ac defecto Mimum the hour of midnight, the Salarian gate was silently...of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of...

...thousands of its inhabitants into slavery. Gibbon describes their siege of Rome in apocalyptic terms: "The inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic TRUMPET." Alaric died in 410 AD Roman soldiers evacuated from Britain to help save and defend their own empire,...

...slaves and domestics; who, either from birth or interest, were attached to the cause of the enemy. At the hour of midnight the Salarian gate was silently...which had subdued and civilized so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia. The proclamation...

...but appeal to Gibbon's sense of irony and drama. Alaric's sack is described in the following terms: 'Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation...which had subdued and civilized so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.'9 Great...

...midnight the inhabitants of Rome were awakened by the tremendous sound of the GOTHIC TRUMPET. 1,163 years after the foundation of Rome, the imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribe« of...

...decline commenced, and in AD 410, nearly twelve centuries after the foundation of Rome, the impeiial city, which had subdued and civilized so considerable a portion of mankind, at the sound of the trumpet of Alaric, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany...