Stelle (16) Debaccantibus per Hispanias ba...; (Continuatio Chronicorum Hieronymianorum (458 - 469), Burgess, The Chronicle of Hydatius, a. 410, p. 82-83) [5704]

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Text Continuatio Chronicorum Hieronymianorum (458 - 469) Hydatius of Aquae Flaviae
Quotation (16) Debaccantibus per Hispanias barbaris et seuiente nihilominus perstilentiae malo opes et conditam in urbibus substantiam tyrannicus exactor diripit et milites exauriunt. Fames dira crassatur adeo ut humanae carnes ab humano genere ui famis fuerint deuoratate; matres quoque necatis uel coctis per se natorum suorum sint paste corporibus; bestie, occisorum gladio fame pestilentia cadaueribus adsuaetae, quosque hominum fortiores interimunt eorumque carnibus paste passim in humani genreis effereantur interitum. Et ita quatuor plagis ferri famis pestilentie bestiarum ubique in toto orbe seuientibus, predicte a domnio per prophetas suos adnuntiationes implentur.
Translation a. 410 (40) As the barbarians ran wild through Spain and the deadly pestilence continued on its savage course, the wealth and goods stored in the cities were plundered by the tyrannical tax-collector and consumed by the soldiers. A famine ran riot, so dire that driven by hunger human beings devoured human flesh; mothers too feasted upon the bodies of their own children whom tey had killed and cooked with their own hands; wild beasts, habituated to feeding on the bodies of those slain by sword, famine, or pestilence, killed all the braver individuals and feasting on their flesh everywhere became brutally set upon the destruction of the human race. And thus with the four plagues of sword, famine, pestilence, and wild beasts raging everywhere throughout the world, the annunciations foretoled by the Lord through his prophets came to fulfillment.
Quotation source Burgess, The Chronicle of Hydatius, a. 410, p. 82-83
Temporal Coverage 409 - 411
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Comment references to Daniel, Ezekiel, Lamentations