Identifier: historyofromepop01gris (find matches)
Title: History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932
Subjects: Papacy
Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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der to stem the frightful incursions of thdGermanic races.3 21. Towards the end of the fourth century, the valiant GothAlaric, that name fatal for Rome and Italy, began to be heanof outside his own nation. He led his countrymen througl § 17 (/>. L., XXXVI11., 423) : Priiis agimus ut idola i\eormn corde frangamus . . . Modo orandum est pro Mis, non irascendum Mis. 2 Cod. Theod., XVI., 2, 29, p. 72 : quia temporibus nostris addi potius reverentiucupimus, quam ex his, quae olim praestita sunt, immutariP 3 We give the portrait of Honorius (111. 5) from a photograph by Moscioni of RomCp. Garrucci, Arte crisiiana, tav. 449, No. 3. According to the two inscriptions, whicshould be read consecutively, the ivory tablet was dedicated to the memory of Honoriiby the Consul Probus. DN • HONORIO • SEMP • AVG • j PROBVS • FAMVLV.CV • C • CONS • ORD • The Labarum is capped, like that of Theodosius (111. 1) by tlMonogram of Christ. The winged Victory is here a mere neutral symbol.
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111. 5. HONORIUS. no. 2i HONORIUS 37 Illyricum, Macedonia, and Thessaly, devastating the territory ashe passed. Then he crashed forward into the heart of Greece,and laid proud Athens low. Greek civilisation closed amid theclash of Gothic arms. Eleusis was wrecked, and throughoutlater history no further syllable is heard of its mysteries. In 394the Olympian Games had been celebrated for the last time, andthe famous Temple of Olympia itself was shortly after turnedinto a Christian church, the same happening to that heart ofHellas, the Parthenon at Athens.1 Sparta, Argos, Corinth, and a hundred other training-schoolsfor war, statecraft, science, and culture fell, almost without a blow,before the terrible Goths. It was the triumphant progress ofbarbarism over the birthplace of Greek gods and Greek art, atriumph of which the tragic character is almost without parallel inhistory. Thanks to Stilicho and his army, the leader of thoseNorthern hordes was, for a time, restrained from fighting an

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