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In the four-fifties came the keen point of the Hunnish terror, putting the fear of death on even the worst of the barbarians that had wrecked the Roman world. In 476, the pretense of a Western Empire was abandoned.
In 476 the consul Gaius Fabricius succeeded in inducing the considerable Tarentine settlement of Heraclea to enter into a separate peace, which was granted to it on the most favourable terms.
For the last two centuries the East and the West had been separated, though sometimes coalescing under one head, but in 476, the last titular Emperor of the West had been deposed. Italy had been the prey of successive swarms of Teutonic nations.
And we may observe with Herbert, a modern learned dignitary of our Church, how remarkably this augury was fulfilled; for "if to the twelve centuries denoted by the twelve vultures that appeared to Romulus we add, for the six birds that appeared to Remus, six lustra or periods of five years each, by which the Romans were wont to number their time, it brings us precisely to the year 476, in which the Roman Empire was finally extinguished by Odoacer."
Anu, it will be recalled, utters the same cry. See p. 546. Referring to his garments of mourning. I.e., Ea. I follow Zimmern's rendition of the line. Schöpfung und Chaos, pp. 168 seq. Adapa. See pp. 476 seq. The problem of immortality, we have seen, engaged the serious attention of the Babylonian theologians.
The men of 476 not only had no idea that they were entering upon a new era, but least of all did they dream that the Roman Empire had come to an end, or was ever likely to. Its cities might be pillaged, its provinces overrun, but the supreme imperial power itself was something without which the men of those days could not imagine the world as existing.
The barbarians wandered hither and thither pretty much at their pleasure, and the German troops in the service of the Empire amused themselves setting up and throwing down puppet emperors. In 476 the German mercenaries in the Roman army demanded that a third part of Italy be given to them.
Works, x. 479, 573. Works, x. 452-54.; Bain's James Mill, 104. The case of the 'King v. Cobbett, , which led to the proceedings against Mr. Justice Johnson in 1805. Cobbett's State Trials, xxix. Works, x. 448-49. Ibid. x. 458. Works, x. 471, 570. Ibid. x. 471. Ibid. x. 461. Ibid. x. 471. Ibid. x. 490. Printed in Works, x. 495-97. Ibid. x. 570. Ibid. x. 476. Works, x. 485. Bain's James Mill, 136.
Of the conjectures which have obtained certain credit, we may mention that which described it as a trophy raised, in 476 B.C., to celebrate the subjugation of Lycia by the Persians; and that which describes the subject of the decorative sculptures as that of the suppression of the revolt of the Cilicians by the Persian Satrap of Lycia.
Milo remained behind in Tarentum; Alexander, the king's son, in Locri; and Pyrrhus, with his main force, embarked in the spring of 476 at Tarentum for Syracuse. Embarkation of Pyrrhus for Sicily The War in Italy Flags
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