The ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero, whose valour and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour of a captive multitude they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus, a small river... A Book of Ballads on German History - Page 93by Wilhelm Wagner - 1877 - 154 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edward Hutton - Italy - 1915 - 392 pages
...the labour of a captive multitude they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus (Buxentius), a small river that washes the walls of Consentia....prisoners, who had been employed to execute the work." After that appalling spectacle, Consentia is wrapt in darkness for more than five hundred years. In... | |
| Henry Bernard Cotterill - Italy - 1915 - 808 pages
...constructed in the vacant bed ; the waters were then restored to their natural channel, and the secret spot x where the remains of Alaric had been deposited was...prisoners who had been employed to execute the work.' Athaulf , or Adolf, the brother of Alaric's wife, took command of the Visigoth army. Of the motives... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - Norfolk (England) - 1922 - 180 pages
...multitude, they [the Goths] diverted the course 6f the Busentinus, a small river that washes the wall of Consentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the...prisoners, who had been employed to execute the work." The original authority, to whom Gibbon and Browne both refer, is Jornandes, the historian of the Goths... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 536 pages
...they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus, a small river that washes the walls of [Bu»ento] Consentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid...the prisoners who had been employed to execute the work.133 » The personal animosities and hereditary feuds of the Barba- Adoipiu rians were suspended... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - Literary Collections - 2000 - 682 pages
...of the transports: their courage was daunted by the terrors of a new element; and the whole design was defeated by the premature death of Alaric, which...prisoners who had been employed to execute the work." — See the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 5, page 329.2 Heard ye the Gothic trumpet's... | |
| Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - Great events by famous historians - 1905 - 438 pages
...their natural channel, and the secret spot where the remains of Alaric had been deposited was forever concealed by the inhuman massacre of the prisoners who had been employed to execute the work. The personal animosities and hereditary feuds of the Barbarians were suspended by the strong necessity... | |
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