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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), A'ttila (search)
d to his palace beyond the Danube, and (if we except the doubtful story in Jornandes, de Reb. Get. 43, of his invasion of the Alani and repulse by Thorismund) there remained till on the night of his marriage with a beautiful girl, variously named Hilda, Ildico, Mycolth, the last of his innumerable wives, possibly by her hand (Marcellin. Chronicon), but probably by the bursting of a blood-vessel, he suddenly expired, and was buried according to the ancient and savage customs of his nation. (A. D. 454.) The instantaneous fall of his empire is well symbolized in the story that, on that same night, the emperor Marcian at Constantinople dreamed that he saw the bow of Attila broken asunder. (Jornandes, Reb. Get. 49.) In person Attila was, like the Mongolian race in general, a short thickset man, of stately gait, with a large head, dark complexion, flat nose, thin beard, and bald with the exception of a few white hairs, his eyes small, but of great brilliancy and quickness. (Jornandes, Reb
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Marcelli'nus (search)
Marcelli'nus or MARCELLIA'NUS (*Markelliano/s, Procop.), a Roman officer, who acquired for himself in the fifth century an independent principality in Illyricum. He was a friend of the patrician Aetius, on whose assassination, A. D. 454 [AETIUS], he appears to have renounced his allegiance to the contemptible emperor Valentinian III. [VALENTINIANUS III.]; and having gathered a force, established himself in Dalmatia and the other parts of Illyricum. (Procop. De Bell. Vandal, 1.6.) After the assassination of Valentinian, whether before the election or after the deposition of Avitus is not clear [AVITUS], a conspiracy of the young nobles was formed under the restless Paeonius to raise Marcellinus to the empire, but without success. (Sidon. Apollin. Epistol. 1.11.) During the reign of Majorian, Marcellinus appears to have recognized his authority; and the title of Patricius Occidentis, which Marcellinus bore, was perhaps conferred at this time. He marched with a body of troops, chiefly o
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
wed by a reconciliation and an alliance, the terms of which were dictated by Aetius. After this insult he had the imprudence to venture into the emperor's palace at Rome, in company with Boethius, Praefectus Praetorio, and to urge the marriage of the emperor's daughter with his son. In a fit of irritation the emperor drew his sword and plunged it into the general's body. Theslaughter was completed by the attendants of Valentinian, and Boethius, the friend of Aetius, also shared his fate. (A. D. 454.) The principal friends of Aetius were singly summoned to the palace, and murdered. Thus the bravest man, the ablest commander of the age, the last great Roman soldier, perished by the treacherous hand of the most unwarlike of the Roman Caesars. A grievous insult to Petronius Maximus is said to have been the immediate cause of Valentinian's death. Maximus had a handsome wife, who resisted the emperor's solicitations, but he got her within the palace by an artifice, and compelled her to y