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
| Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1879 - 670 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." — Sec The Decline and Fullof the Roman Empire t vol. vp 329.] HEARD ye the Gothic trumpet's blast... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1881 - 578 pages
...natur.ti channel, and the secret spot where the remains of Alanc had been deposited was forever coiicealed by the inhuman massacre of the prisoners who had been employed to execute the work."— See Tlte Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. vp 329.] HEARD ye the Gothic trumpet's blast ?... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Italy - 1883 - 564 pages
...applause. By the labour of a captive multitude, they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils...concealed by the inhuman massacre of the prisoners who liad been employed to execute the work." 4 m. before reaching Coseuza a road branches off on the rt.... | |
| Mary Elsie Thalheimer - History - 1883 - 492 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."— G"/W>ort. The story of Alaric well illustrates the weakness of the divided empire, and the vacillating... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Church history - 1883 - 562 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." Adolphus, brother-in-law of Alaric, succeeded, by the vote of the 'jfOihSc army, to the supreme con*r:.and.... | |
| Thomas Burr Sikes - 1885 - 336 pages
...the walls of Consentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Eome, was constructed in the vacant bed. The waters were...prisoners who had been employed to execute the work." The Empire of the West lasted a few years longer, during the ignominious reigns of Honorius and his... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1886 - 732 pages
...small river that washes the walls of Conscntia. The royal AD 41J. ADOLPHUS— MARCHES INTO GAUL. 287 sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies...prisoners who had been employed to execute the work (AD 410). § 16. The personal animosities and hereditary feuds of the barbarians were suspended by... | |
| Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1887 - 516 pages
...ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero whose valour and fortitude they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour...prisoners who had been employed to execute the work." The commonest method of the Australian Aborigine was doubtless to inter the body. Major Mitchell has... | |
| Christopher Perren - Sermons - 1889 - 442 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." And when Attila, the king of the Huns died, he was buried in a similar manner. He called himself "the... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1890 - 366 pages
...applause. By the labour of a captive multitude, they forcibly diverted the course of the Buseutiuus. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils...prisoners who had been employed to execute the work." At Bende S. Fili Stat. (see below) a road branches off on it. to (21 m.) Paola. COSENZA (15,962), the... | |
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