Note 115
From Chapter 27 of the Decline & Fall

Zosimus, 1. iv. [c. 57] p. 280; Socrates, 1. vii. 10. Alaric himself (de Bell. Getico, 524) dwells with more complacency on his early exploitst against the Romans.

. . . Tot Augustos Hebro qui teste fugavi.

Yet his vanity could scarcely have proved this plurality of flying emperors.

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