GIBBON'S

HISTORY

OF THE

DECLINE AND FALL

OF

THE ROMAN EMPIRE:

FOR THE USE OF

Families and Young Persons.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

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GIBBON'S.

HISTORY

OF THE

DECLINE AND FALL

OF

THE ROMAN EMPIRE:

FOR THE USE OF

Families and Poung Persons.

REPRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXT,
WITH THE CAREFUL OMISSION OF ALL PASSAGES OF AN
IRRELIGIOUS OR IMMORAL TENDENCY.

BY THOMAS BOWDLER, Esq. F.R.S. S.A.

EDITOR OF THE FAMILY SHAKSPEARE.

O Hamlet! thou hast cleft my heart in twain.

O, throw away the worser part of it;

And live the purer with the other half.

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

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1826.

Ubi animus requievit, et mihi reliquam ætatem a Republica procul habendam decrevi, non fuit consilium socordia atque desidia bonum otium conterere.

CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

CHAP. XXIV.

Revolt of the Goths.-They plunder Greece.-Two great Inva-

sions of Italy by Alaric and Radagaisus.-They are repulsed

by Stilicho.-The Germans overrun Gaul.- Usurpation of

Constantine in the West.-Disgrace and Death of Stilicho.

A. D.

395 Revolt of the Goths

396 Alaric marches into Greece

397 He is attacked by Stilicho

Escapes to Epirus

398 Alaric is declared master-general of the eastern Il-

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