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ton of Tiiariiis. aGot' .-real influx 



the llyz:intinr empire, king Tin ! lo his as- 



tutam :> again a 



> 177 It -< i in- that 2< liim- 



ul as hi ice- broke 



out between lain and I hi- Goth*. Theodorie, on tin- con- 

 Irary, was loyal utul generous, anil In- continued to In- a 

 il ally when the emperor had satisfied his jn.-t 

 claim-, Ii catcd him 



Patrirm* and Magistcr Militia- Pid'sentis in -IK1. and sub- 

 led him to tho consulahip in -1*1, ;i 



which is still distinir the annul- .ante. 



Jornandes affirms tha - pled him as his son, and 



caused an equcMiian stutu. 'i.l in honour ol him 



imperial palace. (De lit /HI.- (inlhifi>:v. 57.) 

 Notwithstanding the honours \vhirh Zcno con: 

 upon the king of the Goths Xcno showed Ins insincerity 

 ver hi- saw an opportunity. To avenge himself. 

 Tltedorie invaded Thrace in -iss" . dispersed the imperial 

 -. and besieged Xeno in Constantinople. It is said 

 that Zeno saved himself by ceding to his adversary Italy, 

 or his right to Italy, which was then in the hand- ol' 

 Odoacer. the chief o'f the Rugians. Perhaps he ceded 

 only his claims on this country, hoping thus to tret rid of a 

 neighbour and friend whom' he had changed by Ins own 

 misconduct into a dangerous enemy. However this may 

 lie conditions of agreement are obscurely known. 

 The Greeks afterwards pretended that Xeno had sent the 

 to Italy to re-annex that country to the empire : the 

 (loths. on the contrary, aflirnied that he surrendered Italy 

 to their king. iPYocopius. !)< Ht'lln li'ithicn, i. 1.) Theo- 

 dorie had certainly formed the plan of conquering Italy. 

 and he was bent on earning it into execution. It there- 

 fore he found it ad\ isabl'c to use the name of Xeno, he pro- 

 did so for the purpose of gaining those among the 

 Romans who, although they del. -led forciguus. would 

 submit to hit)' conqueror whom they iv> :ld consider as a 

 delegate or' the antient legitimate authority. 



milled his nation '-is'.) , that is, that pait 

 of theOstro-Goths which obeyed the kings of the ho 

 Amuli.' ol which Theodoric was a descendant. ' 

 Gothic tribes only remained in Thrace and in the Tuuric 

 Chersonese. A whole nation, men. women, and children. 

 carrying all their moveable property with them, lelt their 

 homes and took the road to Italy, following the Danube 

 as far as the tract which lies between that river and the 

 lake of Balaton in western Hungary. Trapstila, the kin:: of 

 the (icpidif. appeared with an army to prevent them from 

 paving through his dominions: but he was routed by 

 "it the river Ulca the present S/ula), which 

 into the western corner of the lake of Balaton. Kn- 

 during huidships of all kinds, and lighting their way 

 through the armed inhabitants, the Goths traversed the 

 i pait of Panmmia. cursed the .lulian Alps, and 

 leached Isonxo, where they met with the army of Oil 

 who W;LS hcai en in th -'11170. at Verona, 



and on the Adda (490). Odoacer. who fled to Ravenna, wu- 

 forsaken by his best general. Tufa, and Krederik, a prince 

 of the Rugiaii-, and Epiphania*, bishop of Pa\ia, also 

 rnme to Milan to pay homage, to the king of the Goths. 

 Odoacer was blocked up in Ravenna by one part of the 



and Thcodoric. with another part, took po . 

 of the whole peninsula of ItuK Su-ily, Sardinia, 



and Corsica to the Vandals. '1 '' l.i-ted 



- : hut at last Odoacer surrendered to Thcodoric. 

 who.i .ling his oath to spare tile life of his pil- 



ed him to be put to death in his own palace 

 i and his whole family shared the 

 same fate. 



Theodoric was now acknowledged as king of Italy by the 



linn 



the furniture of the palace at Ravenna, which Odoaeer 

 had sent to Constantinople. Theodoric did not assume 

 thi- imperial title although he adopted the nut. 

 Flavins. In 51 X I he went to Komi 1 and c a tri- 



umph ; he convened the senate ' ad pulniam uurcuui, 

 confirmed the immunities of the Romans, and gained the 



nl the lower classes by his liberality and I 

 t-vhil r (lit .-peet.i' 



:idy continued hi- power by alli- 

 MWe>. tninngldao. Gundohald and ' 



hiiving inside an in- 

 llaly and carried away many ol the inhiilji 



TlieodoiH' sent Kpiphama-. bi-hop . 



bishop of Turin, as ambassadors to Uurgii'ah . Tin 



. in delivering the eapti\. ..c'hided an alli- 



ance betuecii the-e kniL,'- and 



daughter Ostrogothu in manias. on of 



(iunilobald. lie likewise kept peace wi;h tl. 

 and gave b - nalfriila. then the willow . 



(ioth. in inamage to their king Thr;iimund. I: 

 daughter, Theodiehusa, was married to Aloric II.. kn 



Ills; and his niece. Amalaberga, became tin- 

 wife of llermanfiid, the lust king of the Thurin: 

 Thendoric himself took for hi- second wife Atldofleda, the 



king of the Fianks. 

 In f)Ol Theodoric was at war with Tniaric, king of the 



.e. who. alter many d 



viueesus farasSiriuium, now Mitrowiczon the S , 

 junction with the Danube. The inhabitants of 

 part of the Alemanniau kingdom, which hud been de- 

 stroyed by Clo\ is [AI.KMVNM: Txt KIMI -Ale- 

 iiiiiniii.] iicknowleilged Theodoric as their protector, who 

 summoned Clovis to desi>t from any further violence 

 against the Alcmanni. i^II, contained in Cussio- 



i'uriiir.. ii. 41.) 



Meanwhile a war had broken out between Clovis and 

 Alaric II., king of the \'isi-Goths. Aluric fell in tin- 

 battle of Vouirle in 507. in conse(|iience of which the 

 greater part of the dominions of the Visi-Goths in Gaul 

 came into the hands of the Franks. Alaiic'sonly legitimate 

 son was a child named Amalarie, whom he had by his 

 wife Theodiehusa. Astheie wa> danger of all Spain being 

 invaded by the Fr.inks, the Visi-Goths intrusted the 

 gnardianshi]) of their young king to Theodoric. who thus 

 became the ruler over the Ostro-Goths and the \'isi-Goths, 

 or over Si)iiin, southern (iaul, Italy with the dependent 

 province of Illyricum, and part- of Rhuvtia. Noricura, and 

 I'annoma. Tlieodoric had previon.sly si-nt an army into 

 (iaul. commanded by Iha, who delivered Aries, \\liii : 

 be-ieged by the Franks ,")<)K ; and the sun iiiade 



a prisoner of Gcsalie. the natural son of Alaric II., who 



dangerous rival of young Anuluric. Clov; 

 pelled to content himself with the northern and la 



; the Visi-Gothic dominions in Gaul. Front thi- 

 511. i- dated the icgeney ol'Theodoric in the kingdom of the 

 \ isi-Goths, who however stv led himself king, and the i 

 cils which were held during his government ui 

 conling to the years of his rcii'.n. He took ji. 

 the cities of Provence, peihaps under the pretext of the 

 expenses which he had been put to in saving the 

 Gothic kingdom. He appointed Liberals his lieutenant 

 in Gaul, and Theudis in Spain. 



The relation between 'I lieodoric and the cnipciv. 

 Constantinople was maintained to Ui n of both 



parties, until Justin published a severe edict against all 

 who were not of the Catholic church ."ili! . and 

 deprived the Arians of their churches. About the 

 time this emperor had engaged wiih some members of the 

 Roman Senate in designs against the Gothic dominion in 

 Italy. Boi-t bins, then one of the lii>t men in It aly.wa.s charged 

 with being a principal conspirator, lie wu> imprisoned in 

 r>_'J. and during hi- captivity he wrote his Treatise on the 

 Consolation of Philosophy. The conspiracy proved ahor- 



'Iiicthins was put to death in .Y.M. and Symnia. 

 his father-in-law, shared the same fate in the loll' 

 at Ravenna. With regard to religious a Hairs, Tlieodoric, 

 who v :ni. like all the Goths, ordered Pope John 



with several hi-' > to Constantinople and to ob- 



tain better conditions for the Aiians in the F.ustcrn em- 

 pire. The pope reluctantly obeyed, but it seems tl 

 ( 'onslantinople he spoke rather according to his eoiiseience 

 than in favour of the Arians: for he was imp 

 his return, by order ol'Theodoric, and died not D 

 alter, on the IKIh of May, ."rjil. On Theodoii. 



lion. Felix was elected pope, and ' 



confirmed by \thaluric, the sue .eodoiie. This 



fact prOVM the great influence which Ti .nl in 



the a Hairs of his time. Not having obtained favourable 

 conditions for the Aiiutis inthe Fast. Theodoiie was about 

 tr. retaliate on the Catholics in In- dominion-, whin he 

 ill. d suddenly oil the 2(ith of Auirust. ")-(i. in the 72nd 

 of his ;e_;e. His i onlenipoi at n - ha-.r invented many 

 fables about the sudden death of tins great king, 

 eopius .-De Hello Gothico.'i. I -ays that the head of a 



tish being served up at table, he fancied it to bo 



