Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . ians of his reign we have only the meagre narratives of Eutropius andAurelius Victor, the others being now lost; but notices of Diocletians life arescattered about in various authors, Libanius, Vopiscus, Eusebius, Julian in his Caesars, and the contemporary panegyrists, Eumenes and Mamertinus. Hislaws or edicts are in the Code. Among other useful reforms, he abolishedthe frumentarii, or licensed informers, who were stationed in every province to
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . ians of his reign we have only the meagre narratives of Eutropius andAurelius Victor, the others being now lost; but notices of Diocletians life arescattered about in various authors, Libanius, Vopiscus, Eusebius, Julian in his Caesars, and the contemporary panegyrists, Eumenes and Mamertinus. Hislaws or edicts are in the Code. Among other useful reforms, he abolishedthe frumentarii, or licensed informers, who were stationed in every province to 56 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS report any attempt at mutiny or rebellion, and who basely enriched themselvesby working on the fears of the inhabitants. He also reformed and reduced thenumber of the insolent Praetorians, who were afterward totally disbanded byConstantine. ALARIC THE BOLD By Archdeacon Farrar, , (360-410) ALARIC, the All-ruler, surnamed the Baltha, or Bold, was born, about an island in the delta of the Danube. As long as the great Theodosiuslived, the Goths continued in his pav : but when he died in 395, and Alaric was. elevated on the shield i as king of the Visigoths, he determined to lead his nation to in- dependent victory. In 395 and 396 he in vad led Greece,* and Stilicho, the \^andal gen- eral of the Western Emperor, advanced against him. The strategy of Stilicho was mas-terly, and it would probably have gone hard with Alaric had not Stilichobeen suddenly bidden by the Eastern Emperor, Arcadius, to withdraw his west-ern troops. Again, in 396, Stilicho penned Alaric in the Peloponnesus, but forsome unknown reason allowed him to escape into Illyricum. The Gothic chiefhad, however, struck deadly terror into the Eastern Empire ; and by way of paci-fying him Arcadius made him Master-General of Illyricum. Alaric had already found the way to Italy when he accompanied Theodosiusin his campaign against the usurper Maximus in 394. In 400 he descended intoI
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