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Salvian and the Ruin of the Roman Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Raymond Thouvenot
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Extract

At the moment when Attila was preparing to attack the Western Empire a priest named Salvian, driven by the invasions from the Rhineland to Marseilles, published his tract De Gubernatione Dei, one of the strangest amongst the off spring of declining Latin literature.

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Antiquity , Volume 8 , Issue 31 , September 1934 , pp. 315 - 327
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1934

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References

1 Plurima mortis imago. Aen. II, 369.

2 I have completed the story, adding, in square brackets, the conclusion, based upon Eva M. Sanford's translation (Columbia Univ. Press, 1930, 125.Google Scholar

3 It required continual intervention on the part of the emperors to prevent the landowners from arbitrarily evicting the colonus from his estate. Cod. Theod., XIII, 10, 13.