“One person's actions can alter the course of history, and a political or military mischance can touch off a catastrophic reaction that… — Timothy Venning Copy Share Image
“Alaric now at this moment of supreme crisis, coming down to the rough shore and seeing the howling waves, raised his hand… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Olympius, in the name of the Emperor Honorius, ordered the forces in Bologna to take the field against Alaric, on peril of… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“It is said that—Arcadius having offered its weight in gold for the head of Gainas—King Uldin drew out the brains of Gainas… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“The Western Empire, supported generation after generation by half a hundred of the strongest and most remarkable men in history, from Stilicho… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“This short history should have something to satisfy every taste and perversion: action, treachery, fratricide and regicide, corruption, and bloodshed. It contains… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“But we are all Goths, for all that, whoever we are; which is to say, Outlanders. And like the Goth Sarus we… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“The historian Cassiodorus believed that the selective destruction of Alaric, as regards the Greek monuments, was of good effect. Alaric had some… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“The Goths had trained bears and possibly, from one garbled account, trained seals. The dance is something with no survival, lacking verbal… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Heap heavier still the fetters; bar closer still the grate; Patient as sheep we yield us up unto your cruelhate. But by… — Thomas Babington Macauley Copy Share Image
“Several bitter contemporary references to the pseudo-Emperor Eugenius had puzzled us. They asked how a man of such an appearance could attempt… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Rufinus was an orator and a lawyer, a master of civil administration and agenda. It was because of him that the Eastern… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Here we come to a semantic difficulty. Other peoples who were of considerable civilization had been referred to as barbarians for more… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Stilicho first talked of himself; and then of the Empire, which was an extension of himself. He gave it as his studied… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
