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| ID |
5739 |
| Text |
Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
| Quotation |
1. Anno itaque ab urbe condita MCLXIIII inruptio urbis per Alaricum facta est: cuius rei quamuis recens memoria sit, tamen si quis ipsius populi Romani et multitudinem uideat et uocem audiat, nihil factum, sicut etiam ipsi fatentur, arbitrabitur, nisi aliquantis adhuc existentibus ex incendio ruinis forte doceatur. 2 in ea inruptione Placidia, Theodosii principis filia, Arcadii et Honorii imperatorum soror, ab Athaulfo, Alarici propinquo, capta atque in uxorem adsumpta, quasi eam diuino iudicio uelut speciale pignus obsidem Roma tradiderit, ita iuncta potentissimo barbari regis coniugio multo reipublicae commodo fuit. |
| Translation |
1. And so 1,164 years after the foundation of the City, the City was breached by Alaric. Although this deed is of recent memory, if anyone were to see the great numbers of Rome’s population and listen to them, he would think, as they themselves say, that ‘nothing had happened’, unless he were to learn of it by chance from the few ruins which still remain from the fire. 2. During the breach, Placidia, Prince Theodosius’s daughter, and sister of the emperors Arcadius and Honorius, was captured and married by Athaulf, a kinsman of Alaric and, as if Divine Judgment had made Rome hand her over as a hostage and, as it were, a special pledge of goodwill, finding herself in an influential marriage to a powerful barbarian was of great use to the state. |
| Quotation source |
Orosius, Histories VII, cap. 40, par. 1-2, trans. Fear, p. 404 |
| Temporal Coverage |
410 - 410 |
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