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With the retreat of the Goth and the treaty sealed by the marriage of Placidia, the sister of Honorius, and the Gothic king, Italy secured herself a peace and a repose which endured for some forty-two years, only broken by the raid of Heraclian from Africa in 413. But Ataulfus did not long survive his marriage.
And now his blood will be on my head-as if I bad not sins enough to bear already, I must go and add this over and above all, to sell my own Joseph, the son of my old age, to the Midianites! Here, I will go with you now at once I will not rest till I find hint, clasp his knees till he pities my gray hairs! Let Heraclian and Orestes go their way for aught I care I will find him, I say.
But I hope that you will recollect that I have a life to lose, and that it is hardly fair of you to imperil it as you intend to do. If you could help or save Heraclian, I should be dumb at once. But now, for a mere point of honour to destroy fifty good soldiers, who know not their right hands from their left Shall I ask their opinion?
The Byzantine empire was most tranquil and prosperous when it could acquiesce in hereditary succession; five dynasties, the Heraclian, Isaurian, Amorian, Basilian, and Comnenian families, enjoyed and transmitted the royal patrimony during their respective series of five, four, three, six, and four generations; several princes number the years of their reign with those of their infancy; and Constantine the Seventh and his two grandsons occupy the space of an entire century.
'A fine sparkling breeze outside the Pharos, Raphael fair for the wheat-ships too. 'Are they gone yet? 'Yes why? I sent the first fleet off three days ago; and the rest are clearing outwards to-day. 'Oh! ah so! Then you have not heard from Heraclian? 'Heraclian? What the-blessed saints has the Count of Africa to do with my wheat-ships? 'Oh, nothing. It's no business of mine.
For four months your promises have been lying fallow. She did not confess how glad she would have been at heart to see them lying fallow still. 'Because This morning I have news; which I tell to you the first as a compliment. We will take care that all Alexandria knows it before sundown. Heraclian has conquered. 'Conquered? cried Hypatia, springing from her seat.
Stilicho supported, with calm resignation, the injurious names of traitor and parricide; repressed the unseasonable zeal of his followers, who were ready to attempt an ineffectual rescue; and, with a firmness not unworthy of the last of the Roman generals, submitted his neck to the sword of Heraclian.
The benevolent profusion with which the matron distributed the fruits, or the price, of her estates, contributed to alleviate the misfortunes of exile and captivity. But even the family of Proba herself was not exempt from the rapacious oppression of Count Heraclian, who basely sold, in matrimonial prostitution, the noblest maidens of Rome to the lust or avarice of the Syrian merchants.
'I always feared that woman above all the schools of the heathen, said Arsenius. 'But the Count Heraclian, whom I always held for the wisest as well as the most righteous of men! Alas! alas! what virtue will withstand, when ambition enters the heart!
The success of Orestes' plot depended on the success of a bigger rebellion the attempt of Heraclian, Count of Africa, to conquer Rome. Heraclian had been defeated, and this was known to Cyril, but Orestes was misled by false intelligence, and counted on Heraclian's victory for his own triumph.
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