UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



Y. M. D. 



Gcnferic, king of the Vandals, whom Eu- 

 doxia, widow of Vdlciitiniaii, had called 

 from Africa, entered Rome, and pillaged that 

 city for i 5 days. The Weftern empire is de- 

 ftroyed. Africa is po/TerTed by the Vandals j 

 Spain by the Vifigoths; G "il by the Franks; 

 the Britifh Ifles by the Picls, Englifh, and 

 Saxons; and Italy by the Lombards. The 

 princes who fuccecdcd were rather pretenders ' 

 to empire than emperors. However, we muft 

 not omit them. 

 ^.. Avitus reigned - - . i 2 S 



5. Majorian - -442 



6. Severus r r - - 3 8 27 



7. Anthe mius - 5 2 2$ 



8. Anicius, called Olibrius, reigned - 0716 



9. Glicerius abdicated, after he had reigned - i 3 2j 

 jo. Juliys Nepos reigned - - i 2 Q 

 jj. Romulus Auguflulus, fon ofOrefles ? was the 



laft Roman emperor that was acknowledged 

 at Rome ; he was difpofTeflpd by Ordoacer, 

 king of the Henils, after having reigned only o 10 



The Weft was, after this, without emperors 

 for 324 years, that is, to the time of Charle- 

 magne, Thus the ancient Roman empire, 

 that was fo formidable under the firft Au- 

 guftus, was reduced to a mere fhadow of ex- 

 iftenc^ under Auguftulus : this fovereignty, 

 which began very lowly under the firit Ro- 

 rnulus, ended frill more Infignificantly under 

 the laft Romulus ; and was loft like a rivu- 

 jet that runs into the ocean. 



XIV. In order to have a juft conception of 

 .liftory of the middle age in general, and of 

 of the empire of the Weft during its decline 



and 



