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Updated: May 1, 2025

All serious business was suspended during this festival; the courts of justice were shut; the streets of Rome, the theatres, the places of public and private resort, resounded with hymeneal songs and dances: and the royal bride, clothed in silken robes, with a crown on her head, was conducted to the palace of Ricimer, who had changed his military dress for the habit of a consul and a senator.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3

During these six years Italy was perpetually ravaged by the Vandals, who landed and pillaged the coast, and then retired with their booty. Ricimer, without ships, invoked the aid of the court of Constantinople, who imposed a Greek upon the throne of Italy.

John Lord - The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.

Seven months later Olybrius died. The alliance Ricimer had made with Constantinople, though he repented it, was the one hope of the future, and as a fact the future belonged to it.

Edward Hutton - Ravenna, a Study

What terminated the brief reign of Maximus? Had Eudoxia reason to lament her invitation to the Vandals? Why was the emperor Avitus dethroned? How did Ricimer procure the deposition of Majorian? What changes followed on the death of Majorian? How did Ricimer terminate his destructive career? What changes took place after the death of Arthemius? Who was the last Roman emperor?

Oliver Goldsmith - Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome : to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. : By Wm. C. Taylor.

His faithful and important services against the common enemy rendered him still more formidable; and, after destroying on the coast of Corsica a fleet of Vandals, which consisted of sixty galleys, Ricimer returned in triumph with the appellation of the Deliverer of Italy.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3

Anthemius, Olybrius, Orestes, and the other half-caste Romans with Greek names who become quasi-emperors and get murdered; Ricimer the Sueve, the king-maker and king-murderer; even good Majorian, who as puppet Emperor set up by Ricimer, tries to pass a few respectable laws, and is only murdered all the sooner. None of these need detain us.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge

Majorian, after the death of Ætius, was recalled and promoted; and his intimate connection with Count Ricimer was the immediate step by which he ascended the throne of the Western empire.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3

Villany is by its very essence self-destructive, and if rogues have their day, the time comes when rogues fall out, and honest men come by their own. That day, however, was not come for wretched Rome. A third time she was sacked by Ricimer her own general; and then more villains ruled her; and more kites and crows plundered her. The last of them only need keep us a while.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge