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Updated: June 15, 2025
Yet Italy was only temporarily delivered, for Stilicho, the hero of Pollentia, with the collected forces of the whole western Empire, might still have defied the armies of the Goths and staved off the ruin another generation, had not imperial jealousy and the voice of envy removed him from command.
Some persons having been killed in a quarrel which happened in the theatre, he banished the leaders of the parties, and the players about whom the disturbance had arisen; nor could all the entreaties of the people afterwards prevail upon him to recall them . The people of Pollentia having refused to permit the removal of the corpse of a centurion of the first rank from the forum, until they had extorted from his heirs a sum of money for a public exhibition of gladiators, he detached a cohort from the city, and another from the kingdom of Cottius ; who concealing the cause of their march, entered the town by different gates, with their arms suddenly displayed, and trumpets sounding; and having seized the greatest part of the people, and the magistrates, they were imprisoned for life.
For why should I speak of Trebellius? on whom the furies of debts seem to have wrecked their vengeance, for we have seen one table avenging another. Why should I speak of Plancus? whom that most illustrious citizen Aquila has driven from Pollentia, and that too with a broken leg, and I wish he had met with that accident earlier, so as not to be liable to return hither.
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