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Claudian gives it in an hexameter, 'Alpibus Italiae ruptis penetrabis ad urbem. Yes, he would take The City, and avenge the treachery of Valens, and all the wrongs which Teutons had endured from the Romans for now four centuries. And he did it. But not the first time. He swept over the Alps. Honorius fled to Asta, and Alaric besieged him there.
He turned away his head, for a tear was in his eye. It was the first that had come to his assistance since this sorrow had come upon him. 'Don't turn from me, dearest Alaric; do not turn from me now at our last moments. To me at least you are the same noble Alaric that you ever were. 'Noble! said he, with all the self-scorn which he so truly felt.
Too much depended on his inducing Undy to act with him. 'Ten thousand pounds has at any rate been taken. 'That I won't deny. 'And half that sum has been lent to you. 'I acknowledge a debt of L5,000. 'It is imperative that L10,000 should at once be repaid. 'I have no objection in life. 'I can sell my shares in the Limehouse bridge, continued Alaric, 'for L6,000, and I am prepared to do so.
Now, go on, and explain away as hard as you like. Alaric, under these circumstances, found it not very easy to put what he had to say into any words that his companion would admit. He fully intended at some future day to thrust Scott's innocence down his throat, and tell him that he was not only a thief, but a mean, lying, beggarly thief. But the present was not the time.
If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius. The King of the Goths would have conspired, perhaps with some reluctance, to destroy the formidable adversary, by whose arms, in Italy as well as in Greece, he had been twice overthrown.
He had sought to tie the hands of Alaric with gifts of power and gold, and was accused of treason by his enemies. The weak Honorius gave way, and Stilicho was slain. His friends shared his fate, and the cowardly imbecile who ruled Rome cut down the only safeguard of his throne. The result was what might have been foreseen.
Plundered by Alaric, and finally ruined by Robert Guiscard, when he burnt the city, it became a fortress under the Colonna, and is included, with the fortress of Monte Citorio, in a transfer of property made by one member of the family to another in the year 1252.
In the midst of the pillage Alaric dressed himself in splendid robes and sat upon the throne of the emperor, with a golden crown upon his head. While Alaric was sitting on the throne thousands of Romans were compelled to kneel down on the ground before him and shout out his name as conqueror and emperor.
Chichester once more burst into tears. "It beats cock-fighting, that's all I can say," cried Alaric. "It simply beats cock-fighting." Mr.
When I was appointed private secretary to the First Lord of the Stannaries, I told my friend Whip Vigil that those were the terms on which I accepted office; and Vigil agreed with me. Alaric, pupil as he was to the great Sir Gregory, declared that he also agreed with him.
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