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165- Reviving the Roman Name

The History of Rome

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The Tall and the Goths

A tall convinced Honorius to sanction unoffensive against the Goths. The emperor was already unhappy that the barbarian king had made a wife of his sister. Constantius got to work at once, blockading the ports of Gaul with the aim of starving the Goths into submission. A tall decided the Goths could no longer survive in Gaul, and he led them west, across the Pyrenees and into Hispania. He would be kept under house arrest until he could be paraded in an official triumph in 416. After which he was exiled to a small island off the coast of Sicily. No word on whether the local birds made him emperor for a third time.

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