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2159 |
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De origine Gothorum (Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum) (560 - 636) Isidore of Seville |
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quem Romani adclamante senatu publica laude prosecuti sunt, quod tantam gentem
vicerit, quod patriam rei publicae reformaverit.
Aera CCCCVII, anno V imperii Valentis primus Gothorum gentis administrationem suscepit
Athanaricus, regnans annos XIII, qui persecutionem crudelissimam adversus fidem commotam voluit
exercere contra Gothos, qui in gente sua Christiani habebantur ex quibus plurimos, quia idolis
immolare non adquieverunt, martyres fecit, reliquos autem multis persecutionibus adflictos, dum prae multitudine horreret interficere, dedit licentiam, immo magis coegit de regno suo exire atque in Romanorum migrare provinciam. |
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The Romans, with the Senate's enthusiastic approval, bestowed public praise on him because he had conquered such a large nation and restored the land of the commonwealth.
In the era 407 (369), the fifth year of Valens' rule, Athanaric was the first to undertake the government of the nation of the Goths; he reigned for thirteen years and decided to apply the very cruel persecution that had been stirred up against the faith to those Goths in his country who were considered to be Christians, very many of whom he caused to be martyrs because they did not agree to sacrifice to the idols. He afflicted the remaining ones with many persecutions; since on account of their numbers he loathed to kill them, he gave them permission, or rather forced them, to leave his kingdom and to migrate to provinces of the Roman Empire. (Trans. Donini and Ford, pp. 4-5) |
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ch. 5-6 (p. 269, lin. 18) |
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