Europe
by Charles William Chadwick Oman (9780217717472)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: himself blockaded it on the Eastern side. The town threw open its gates, and Basiliscus, after a reign of twenty months, was dragged from sanctuary and brought before his nephew's tribunal Zeno promised him that his blood should not be shed, but sent him and his sons to a desolate castle in Cappadocia among the mountain-snows, where they were given such scanty food and raiment in their solitary confinement, that ere long they died of privation (477). It was just after his triumph over Basiliscus that Zeno received the ambassadors of Odoacer, and was saluted as Emperor of West and East alike, in spite of his advice to the Romans to take back as their Caesar their old ruler, Julius Nepos, who was still in possession of part of Dalmatia, though he had lost Italy three years before. Perhaps Zeno might have been tempted to interfere with something more than advice in the affairs of the West, if his second batch of troubles had not fallen upon him, in the form of his long Gothic THE EASTERN EMPERORS, 457-518, WITH THEIR FAMILIES. Names of Emperors in Capitals.] x LEO I.,=Verina. Basiliscus, 457-474- usurper, 475-477- Rusumbladcotus the Isaurian.MIUS, Emperor of the West, 467-47a-Flavius o" Dyrrhachium.Longinus, Arcadia=ZENO,=Ariadne=ANASTASIUSI., Caesaria=Secun- Leontia=Marci- rebel in 475-491. 491-518. 1 dinus. j anus, 492. . rebel in 479. Zeno, LEO, | L? ) d. 480. d. 474. Hypatius, Pompeius, rebels in 532war with the two Theodorics?the sons of Theodemir and Triarius?which began in the year following his restoration. The Ostrogoths had never gone westward, like their kinsmen the Visigoths. They had lingered on the Danube, first as members of the vast empire of Attila the Hun, then as occupying Pannonia in their own right. But, in the reign of Leo i., they h...

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