Paulus Diaconus: HISTORIA ROMANA

1 Igitur imperator Honorius, dum uires rei publicae cotidianis cerneret labefactari incommodis, uirum strenuum et bellicosum Constantium comitem ad Gallias cum exercitu mittit. Is mox Galliam ingressus est, continuo Constantinum tyrannum apud Arelatem extinxit, Constans uero eius filius a Gerontio suo comite Viennae peremptus est. In cuius locum Gerontius Maximum quendam substituens, ipse a suis militibus iugulatus est.

1 Therefore Emperor Honorius, while he saw the strength of the republic daily shaken by troubles, sent the resolute and warlike Count Constantius with an army into the Gauls. He soon entered Gaul and at once put the tyrant Constans to death at Arles; Constans’ son, however, was killed at Vienne by his comrade Gerontius. Gerontius, placing a certain Maximus in his stead, was himself slaughtered by his own soldiers.

Maximus deinde purpura exutus in Hispania exulans egens obiit. Exinde Iobinus apud Gallias, mox adsurrexit, cecidit. Sebastianus tyrannus frater eius continuo creatus occisus est.

Maximus then, stripped of the purple, dying exiled and poor in Spain. Thence Iobinus in Gaul, soon having risen up, fell. Sebastianus, the tyrant, his brother, immediately made, was slain.

Tertullus consul, qui se futurum principem in senatu gloriatus est, pari nihilominus exitu periit. Attalus a Gothis imperator effectus, postmodum captus a Constantio missusque Honorio truncata manu uitae relictus est. Heraclianus quoque cum Sabino genero cum tribus milibus ac septingentis nauibus ex Africa Romam tendens, occursu comitis Marini territus et in fugam uersus, arrepta naui solus Carthaginem rediit ibique peremptus est.

Tertullus, consul, who had vaunted in the senate that he would be prince, nevertheless perished by an equal end. Attalus, made emperor by the Goths, was afterwards captured by Constantius and sent to Honorius; his hand having been cut off, he was left for dead. Heraclianus likewise, with Sabinus his son‑in‑law, setting out from Africa for Rome with 3,700 ships, terrified at the meeting of Count Marinus and put to flight, having his ship seized returned alone to Carthage and there was slain.

Hos omnes Honorius optima religione magnaque Constantii industria superauit, merito sane, nam his diebus praecipiente Honorio, fauente Constantio, sopitis apud Africam haereticis pax Ecclesiae redditur. In qua fulgentissimus tunc apud Ipponiregium totiusque magister Ecclesiae florebat Augustinus.

Honorius by the best religion and by the great industry of Constantius overcame all these, deservedly indeed; for in these days, Honorius commanding, Constantius favoring, and the heretics in Africa brought to rest, the peace of the Church was restored. In which Augustine then, most resplendent at Ipponiregium and teacher of the whole Church, flourished.

2 Interea Wallia Gothorum rex Dei iudicio territus Placidiam apud se honeste habitam, exigente Constantio, fratri Honorio reddidit pacemque cum eo datis lectissimis obsidibus pepigit seque pro Romanis aduersus barbaros, qui Hispanias inuaserant, pugnaturum spopondit. Mittunt e contrario Wandalorum, Alanorum Sueuorumque reges principi Honorio legationem in his uerbis: «Tu cum omnibus pacem habe, omnium obsides accipe. Nos nobis confligimus, nobis perimus, tibi uincimus, tuae erit quaestus rei publicae si utrique pereamus».

2 Meanwhile Wallia, king of the Goths, terrified by the judgment of God, restored Placidia, honorably kept at his court, to her brother Honorius at the demand of Constantio, and, having given very select hostages, pledged peace with him and promised that he himself would fight for the Romans against the barbarians who had invaded the Spains. The kings of the Vandals, Alans and Suebi, on the other hand, sent to Prince Honorius an embassy in these words: “You have peace with everyone, receive hostages from all. We fight for ourselves, we perish for ourselves, we conquer for you; the profit of the res publica will be yours if both of us perish.”

3 His ita tantis incommodis Deo fauente sopitis Honorius Gallam Placidiam germanam suam Constantio suo comiti fide integerrimo et ingenti uiro iamdudum promissam magno cunctorum gaudio sociauit, ex qua Valentinianum filium Constantius genuit, qui postea rei publicae imperium gessit. Hoc in tempore foedus firmissimum cum rege Gothorum Wallia Constantius pepigit, tribuens ei ad habitandum Aquitaniam Galliae prouinciam eiusdemque prouinciae quasdam ciuitates uicinas. Cernens itaque Honorius ubique se Constantii uirtute et ingenio seu per bella seu pacis moderatione tueri, eum cunctis adnitentibus apud Rauennam in regni consortium adsciuit, qui necdum septem mensibus euolutis ex hac luce subtractus est.

3 These things being so great and their troubles, God favoring and hushed, Honorius joined to his comrade Constantius — a man of most upright fidelity and long promised — his sister Galla Placidia, to the great joy of all; from whom Constantius begot a son, Valentinian, who afterwards bore the imperial government. At that time Constantius concluded a very firm treaty with Wallia, king of the Goths, granting him for habitation the province of Aquitania in Gaul and certain neighboring cities of that province. And seeing everywhere that he was defended by Constantius’ virtue and genius, whether by wars or by moderation of peace, Honorius, with all lending aid, admitted him at Ravenna into the consortium of the kingdom — who, not yet seven months completed, was withdrawn from this light.

4 His diebus apud Bethleem Palaestinae beatissimus Hieronymus expletis xci annis ad Christum migrauit.

4 In these days at Bethlehem of Palestine the most blessed Jerome, having completed 91 years, departed to Christ.

5 Sequenti tempore Maximus apud Hispanias factione Iouiniani, qui tunc in re militari clarus habebatur, tyrannidem arripuit. Nec multo post superati utrique et capti ab Honorii exercitu eidem, cum apud Rauennam tricennalia sua perageret, praesentantur.

5 At the following time Maximus, in the Spanish provinces by the faction of Jovinianus — who was then famed in military matters — seized the tyranny. And not long after, both having been overthrown and captured by Honorius’s army, they were presented to him at Ravenna, while he was completing his thirtieth-year celebrations.

Hac tempestate Brittanni Scottorum Pictorumque infestationem non ferentes Romam mittunt ac sui subiectione promissa contra hostes auxilia flagitant. Quibus statim ab Honorio missa militum legio magnam barbarorum multitudinem strauit coeterosque Brittaniae finibus expulit. Sed mox ut discessere Romani, aduecti iterum nauibus hostes obuia quaeque sibi conculcant ac deuorant.

In this season the Britons, not enduring the infestation of the Scots and Picts, sent to Rome and demanded auxiliaries against the enemies, promising their submission. To them immediately a legion of soldiers, sent by Honorius, struck down a great multitude of barbarians and expelled the rest from the bounds of Britain. But soon after the Romans departed, the enemies, brought again by ships, trample down and devour whatever they encounter.

Rursumque aduolant Romani caesumque hostem trans maria fugant.

And again the Romans rush upon them, and with the enemy cut down they put them to flight across the seas.

6 Hoc tempore dum Wandali Alanique Hispanias infestarent, Honorius ad eas defensandas Castinum ducem cum exercitu dirigit. Qui Castinus praeclarum uirum Bonifatium ac bellicis artibus exercitum inepto et iniurioso imperio ab expeditionis suae societate auertit. Bonifatius uero periculosum sibi indignumque ratus eum sequi, quem discordem superbientemque expertus esset, celeriter se ad portum Vrbis atque inde ad Africam proripuit magnumque postmodum rei publicae detrimentum totiusque Africae causa excidii extitit.

6 At that time, while the Vandals and Alans were infesting Hispania, Honorius sent the duke Castinus with an army to defend it. Castinus drove away the distinguished man Bonifatius and his army, skilled in the arts of war, from the fellowship of his expedition by an inept and injurious command. Bonifatius, however, deeming it dangerous and unworthy for himself to follow one whom he had found discordant and overbearing, quickly hurried to the port of the City and thence to Africa, and afterwards proved a great detriment to the republic and the cause of the destruction of all Africa.

Castinus uero tanto collega ob suam intemperantiam priuatus nihil dignum in Hispaniis gessit.

Castinus, however, deprived of so great a colleague on account of his intemperance, accomplished nothing worthy in the Spains.

7 Inter haec Placidia Augusta a fratre Honorio pulsa ad Orientem cum Honoria et Valentiniano filiis profecta a Theodosio Augusto, Archadii alterius germani sui filio, honorifice libenterque suscepta est. Honorius uero postquam cum minore, de quo praemissum est, Theodosio Archadii sui germani filio annis quindecim imperasset, cum iam antea cum fratre annis tredecim ac sub patre duobus regnasset, rem publicam, ut cupierat, pacatam relinquens, apud urbem Romam uita exemptus est corpusque eius iuxta beati Petri apostoli martyrium in mausoleo sepultum est.

7 Meanwhile Placidia Augusta, driven from her brother Honorius, set out for the East with her sons Honorius and Valentinian and was honorably and willingly received by Theodosius Augustus, son of his other brother Arcadius. Honorius, however, after he had reigned with the younger—of whom it was said above—Theodosius, son of his brother Arcadius, for 15 years, having previously reigned with his brother for 13 years and under his father for 2, left the commonwealth, as he had wished, peaceful; his life was taken at the city of Rome and his body was buried in the mausoleum beside the martyrdom of the blessed Apostle Peter.

8 Huic soboles nulla fuit. Nam duae Stiliconis filiae, id est Maria et Thermantia, una post alteram eius coniugio sociatae, utraeque Dei iudicio inopinata morte praeuentae ex hac luce uirgines migrauere. Fuit sane Honorius moribus et religione patri Theodosio non ualde absimilis.

8 He had no offspring. For two daughters of Stilicho, that is Maria and Thermantia, one after the other joined to his marriage, each by God's judgement prevented by unexpected death, departed this light as virgins. Honorius indeed in manners and in religion was not greatly unlike his father Theodosius.

Cuius temporibus quamuis multa externa et ciuilia bella surrexerint, uel nullo uel minimo sanguine quieuere. Exempto rebus humanis Honorio fultus praesidio Castini magistri militum Iohannes inuadit imperium.

In whose times, although many external and civil wars arose, they were carried on with either no or very little bloodshed. Setting aside human affairs, John, supported by the protection of Castinus, magister militum, invaded the imperial power from Honorius.

9 Anno ab Vrbe condita millesimo centesimo septuagesimo septimo, Theodosius Archadii filius quadragesimus tertius regum Romanorum Orientale regebat imperium. Qui conperto patrui sui Honorii funere mox Valentinianum amitae suae Placidiae filium Caesarem effectum cum matre Augusta ad recipiendum Occidentis dirigit regnum. Quo tempore Iohannes, dum Africam, quam Bonifatius obtinebat, bello reposcit, ad defensionem sui infirmior factus est.

9 In the year since the founding of the City 1177, Theodosius, son of Arcadius, the 43rd of the Eastern Roman kings, was ruling the empire. When, upon discovery of the death of his paternal uncle Honorius, he soon made Valentinian, the son of his aunt Placidia, Caesar, he sent him with his mother the Augusta to take possession of the Western kingdom. At that time John, while by war he demanded Africa, which Boniface was holding, was rendered the weaker for the defense of his own position.

Denique uenientes Placidia Augusta et Valentinianus Caesar mira eum felicitate continuo opprimunt regnique gubernacula uictores arripiunt; quorum tunc milites crudeliter Rauennam depopulati sunt eo quod illius maxime ciues tyrannicae parti fauissent. Castinum uero magistrum militum damnant exilio, cuius arripuisse factione Iohannes tyrannidem credebatur, data Aetio uenia eo quod Hunni, quos per ipsum Iohannes acceperat, eius studio remeassent ad propria. Valentinianus igitur consensu totius Italiae imperator efficitur itemque ex decreto Theodosii Augustus appellatur.

Finally, when Placidia Augusta and Valentinianus Caesar arrived, they at once overwhelmed him with wondrous felicity and, as victors, seized the reins of government; whose soldiers then cruelly ravaged Ravenna because its citizens had most favored that tyrannical faction. But Castinus, the magister militum, they condemn to exile — of whom it was believed that John had seized tyranny by faction — while pardon is granted to Aetius on the ground that the Huns, whom John had received through him, by his zeal returned to their own homes. Therefore Valentinianus is made emperor by the consent of all Italy and is likewise called Augustus by decree of Theodosius.

Dum haec geruntur Achillas nobile oppidum Galliarum a Gothis multa ui oppugnatum est, donec inminente Aetio non inpuniti abscederent.

While these things were being done, Achillas, a noble town of the Gauls, was attacked with much force by the Goths, until, with Aetius impending, they did not withdraw unpunished.

10 Bonifatius inter haec apud Africam potentia gloriaque augebatur. Mittuntur aduersus eum Mabortius et Galbio; qui dum Bonifatium obsidere parant, ab eo interempti sunt. Exinde gentibus, quae uti nauibus nesciebant, dum a concertantibus in auxilium uocantur, mare peruium factum est.

10 Bonifatius meanwhile in Africa increased in power and in glory. Mabortius and Galbius are sent against him; and while they prepare to besiege Bonifatius, they are killed by him. Thence, for the peoples who did not know how to use ships, when they were summoned from the combatants as reinforcements, the sea was made passable.

Rursus contra Bonifatium Sigisuuldus comes dirigitur. Bonifatius uero sentiens se non posse tuto Africam tenere cernensque sibi periculum instare, in perniciem totius rei publicae efferuescens Wandalorum Alanorumque gentem cum Genserico suo rege ab Hispaniis euocatos Africae intromisit, qui cunctam paene Africam ferro, flamma, rapinis crudelissime deuastantes, catholicam insuper fidem Arriana impietate subuertere. Sub hoc turbine beatissimus, de quo praemissum est, Augustinus Ipponiensis episcopus, ne ciuitatis suae ruinam cerneret, tertio eius obsidionis mense sex et septuaginta uitae annis expletis, ex quibus quadraginta in clericatu seu episcopatu transegerat, ad Christum perrexit.

Again against Bonifatius Count Sigisuuld is directed. Bonifatius, however, perceiving that he could not safely hold Africa and discerning peril threatening him, boiling with intent for the ruin of the whole res publica, let in the people of Vandals and Alans, summoned from Hispania, with their king Genseric into Africa, who almost wholly devastating Africa by sword, flame, and plunder most cruelly, strove moreover to overthrow the catholic faith by Arian impiety. Under this tempest the most blessed Augustine, bishop of Hippo, of whom mention was made above, lest he should behold the ruin of his city, in the third month of that siege, having completed 76 years of life, of which 40 had been passed in the clergy or episcopate, went to Christ.

11 Eodem tempore pace totius orbis et consensione mirabili Bonifatius ab Africa ad Italiam per Vrbem rediit accepta magistri militum dignitate. Qui cum resistentem sibi Aetium proelio superauisset, paucis interiectis diebus morbo extinctus est. Aetius uero cum deposita dignitate in agro suo degeret ibique eum quidam eius aemulus repentino incursu opprimere temptasset, profugus ad Vrbem atque illinc ad Dalmatiam, deinde Pannonias ad Hunnos peruenit, quorum amicitiis auxilioque usus pacem principum et ius interpolatae potestatis optinuit nec multo post patriciatus etiam dignitatem adeptus est.

11 At the same time, with the peace of the whole world and wonderful concord, Bonifatius returned from Africa to Italy by the City, having received the dignity of magister militum. He, after defeating Aetius, who resisted him, in battle, died of disease a few days later. Aetius, however, having laid down his dignity and living on his estate, when a certain rival of his had tried to overwhelm him by a sudden incursion, fled to the City and thence to Dalmatia, then into the Pannonias to the Huns; by making use of their friendships and aid he obtained the peace of the princes and the right of renewed authority, and not long after also gained the dignity of the patriciate.

Post eam igitur, quae praemissa est, Africae cladem data per Trigetium ad habitandum Wandalis Africae portione pax cum eisdem necessaria magis quam utilis facta est.

After that, therefore, of which was aforesaid, the disaster of Africa having occurred, peace with those same Vandals was made by granting, through Trigetium, a portion of Africa to live in; it proved more necessary than useful.

12 His etiam temporibus Gundicarium Burgundionum regem intra Gallias habitantem Aetius patricius bello obtriuit pacemque ei supplicanti concessit. Interea Gothi pacis placida perturbant et pleraque municipia uicina suis sedibus occupant, cumque essent maxime oppido Narbonensi infesti ciuesque eius longa obsidione et fame affligerent, adueniens comes Litorius hostes in fugam uertit et ciuitatem adlata frumenti copia a fame liberauit.

12 In these same times Aetius the Patrician defeated in war Gundicarius, king of the Burgundians dwelling within the Gauls, and granted peace to him when he begged for it. Meanwhile the Goths disturbed the calm of peace and occupied many neighbouring municipia from their seats; and since they were especially hostile to the town of Narbo and its citizens were afflicted by a long siege and famine, the arriving comes Litorius put the enemies to flight and, by bringing a supply of grain, delivered the city from starvation.

Dehinc anno sequenti bellum aduersum Gothos Hunnis auxiliantibus gestum est.

Thereafter, in the following year, a war against the Goths was waged, the Huns serving as auxiliaries.

Hac tempestate Gensericus apud Africam intra habitationis suae limites cupiens catholicam fidem Arriana inpietate subuertere, quosdam nostrorum episcopos eatenus persecutus est, ut eos priuatos iure basilicarum suarum etiam ciuitatibus pelleret, cum ipsorum constantia nullis superbissimi regis terroribus cederet. His denique diebus Valentinianus Augustus ad Theodosium principem suum fratruelem Constantinopolim profectus est filiamque eius in matrimonium accepit. Per idem tempus piratae multas insulas praecipueque Siciliam populati sunt.

At this time Genseric in Africa, within the limits of his habitation, desiring to overturn the catholic faith by Arian impiety, persecuted certain of our bishops so far as to deprive them of the rights of their basilicas and to expel them even from their cities, since by their constancy they yielded to none of the terrors of the most proud king. In those same days Valentinian Augustus set out for Constantinople to his cousin, the prince Theodosius, and received his daughter in marriage. At the same time pirates devastated many islands, and especially Sicily.

13 Inter haec Litorius, qui secunda ab Aetio patricio potestate Hunnis auxilianlibus praeerat, dum Aetii gloriam superare appetit dumque aruspicum responsis et demonum significationibus fidit, pugnam cum Gothis inprudenter conseruit. Ac primum quidem magnam hostium stragem dedit, postmodum uero suis paene omnibus trucidatis ipse a Gothis turpiter captus est. Postremo pax cum eisdem facta est, cum eam Romani post huius lacrimabilis belli perniciem humilius quam umquam antea poposcissent.

13 Meanwhile Litorius, who, entrusted by the patrician Aetius with authority over the Hunnic auxiliaries, seeking to surpass Aetius’ glory and trusting in the responses of aruspices and the signs of demons, unwisely engaged in battle with the Goths. And at first indeed he gave a great slaughter to the enemy; but afterwards, with almost all his own men cut down, he himself was shamefully taken by the Goths. At last a peace was made with those same men, which the Romans demanded more humbly than ever before after the ruin of this doleful war.

14 Aetio itaque rebus quae in Galliis conponebantur intento, Gensericus, de cuius amicitia nihil metuebatur, Carthaginem dolo pacis inuadit omnesque opes eius excruciatis diuerso tormentorum genere ciuibus in ius suum uertit, nec ab ecclesiarum despoliatione abstinens, quas sacris uasis exinanitas et sacerdotum administratione priuatas non iam diuini cultus loca sed suorum esse iussit habitacula, in uniuersum captiui populi ordinem seuus, sed praecipue nobilitati et religioni infestus, ut discerni omnino non possit, hominibus magis an Deo bellum intulisset. Igitur Carthago a Wandalis hoc modo capta est annis quingentis octoginta et quinque euolutis postquam Romano coeperat iuri parere. Sequenti deinde anno Gensericus ad Siciliam transiens, dum magnis eam calamitatibus affligeret, accepta nuntio de Sabastiano, qui ab Hispaniis ad Africam tenderet, celeriter Carthaginem rediit ratus periculosum sibi ac suis fore, si uir bellandi peritus recipiendae Carthagini incubuisset.

14 Therefore, while Aetius was intent on affairs being arranged in Gaul, Genseric, of whose friendship nothing was feared, treacherously attacked Carthage under the pretense of peace and transferred all its wealth into his own possession by torturing the citizens with diverse kinds of torment; nor refraining from the plundering of churches, he ordered them emptied of sacred vessels and deprived of the ministry of priests, no longer places of divine worship but dwellings of his own people, a savage treatment of the whole captive populace, hostile especially to the nobility and to religion, so that it cannot at all be distinguished whether he waged war more against men or against God. Thus Carthage was taken by the Vandals in this manner in the year 585 after it had begun to obey Roman law. In the following year Genseric, crossing over to Sicily and afflicting it with great calamities, on receiving news of Sabastianus, who was making his way from Spain to Africa, quickly returned to Carthage, thinking it would be dangerous for himself and his men if a man skilled in war should set himself to the recovery of Carthage.

Verum ille amicum se magis quam hostem uideri uolens, dum de regis barbari amicitiis inprouise praesumit, infelici morte peremptus est.

But he, desiring to seem more a friend than an enemy, while rashly presuming upon the friendships of the barbarian king, was slain by an unhappy death.

15 Post haec imperator Theodosius bellum contra Wandalos mouit Ariouindo et Ansila atque Germano ducibus magna cum classe directis. Qui longis cunctationibus negotium differentes Siciliae magis oneri quam Africae praesidio fuere.

15 After these things Emperor Theodosius raised war against the Vandals, with Ariouindus and Ansila and Germanus as commanders, directing a great fleet. They, by long hesitations delaying the enterprise, proved more a burden to Sicily than a protection to Africa.

16 Per haec tempora Hunnis Tracias et Illyricum seua populatione uastantibus exercitus, qui in Sicilia morabatur, ad defensionem Orientalium prouinciarum reuertitur.

16 During these times, with the Huns devastating Thrace and Illyricum by their savage plundering, the army which had been remaining in Sicily was recalled to the defense of the Eastern provinces.

Sub his fere diebus tam terribili Roma terremotu concussa est, ut plurimae eius aedes aedificiaque corruerint.

About these same days Rome was shaken by so terrible an earthquake that very many of its houses and edifices collapsed.

17 Brittani itaque, de quibus praemissum est, cum rursus Scottorum Pictorumque incursionibus premerentur, mittunt Aetio epistolam lacrimis erumnisque refertam eiusque quantotius auxilium efflagitant. Quibus dum Aetius minime annuisset, eo quod contra uiciniores hostes occupatus existeret, quidam Brittanorum strenue resistentes hostes abigunt, quidam uero coacti hostibus subiciuntur. Denique subactam Picti extremam eiusdem insulae partem eam sibi habitationem fecere nec ultra exinde actenus ualuerunt expelli.

17 The Britons therefore, of whom mention was made above, when once more they were pressed by incursions of Scots and Picts, sent to Aetius a letter filled with tears and miseries and begged his aid as urgently as possible. While Aetius scarcely consented to them, because he was occupied with nearer enemies, some of the Britons, valiantly resisting, drove off the foes, while others, forced, submitted to the enemies. Finally, the Picts, having subdued it, made the extreme part of that same island their habitation, nor from that time onward were they able to be expelled.

At uero residui Brittanorum, dum continue Scottorum impetus formidarent, ultra iam de Romanorum praesidio diffidentes, Anglorum gentem cum suo rege Vertigerno ad defensionem suae patriae inuitauere. Quos amicali societate exceptos uersa in contrarium uice hostes pro adiutoribus inpugnatoresque sensere. Sequenti deinceps tempore gens Anglorum siue Saxonum Brittaniam tribus longis nauibus aduehitur.

But the remaining Britons, while they continually feared the incursions of the Scots, and already distrusting the garrison of the Romans, invited the people of the Angli with their king Vertigern to the defense of their fatherland. Having been received in amical fellowship, they in turn were turned against them, the helpers being felt as enemies and assailants. In the following time thereafter the people of the Angli or Saxones were conveyed to Britain in three long ships.

Quorum dum iter prosperatum domi fama retulisset, mittitur nihilominus exercitus multiplex, qui sociatus prioribus primum hostes, propter quos petebatur, abigit, deinde in Brittones arma conuertens conficta occasione, quasi pro se eis militantibus minus stipendia praeparassent, totam prope insulam ab orientali eius plaga usque ad occidentalem incendio sibi seu gladio subegit.

When news at home had reported that their journey had prospered, nevertheless a numerous army was sent, which, allied with the former forces, first drove off the enemies for whose sake it had been sent, then turning its arms against the Britons on a contrived pretext— as if they had provided less stipendia for those serving on their behalf—subdued almost the whole island from its eastern strand to its western by fire or by the sword, bringing it under their control.

18 At uero Theodosius dum, absque uiginti uno superioribus annis, quos cum Honorio patruo regnauerat, septem et uiginti annis imperium gessisset, ex quibus cum Valentiniano genero xxv transegit, apud Constantinopolim morbo consumptus obiit ibique sepultus est.

18 But Theodosius, having wielded the imperium for 27 years, apart from the earlier 21 years during which he had reigned with his uncle Honorius, of which 25 he spent with Valentinian his son‑in‑law, died at Constantinople consumed by disease and was buried there.

EXPLICIT HISTORIAE ROMANAE LIBER TERTIVS DECIMVS

HERE ENDS THE ROMAN HISTORY, BOOK 13