The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain . hthe emperor, to forget their jealousies of race andcreed, and to labour unitedly for the common welfareof the people. Above all, he charged them to befaithful to those great principles of equal justice to all,of strict obedience to law, which at heart he hadalways loved, even though, amid the infirmities of ageand blinded hy panic terror, he had for a moment letthem slip. He further directed that the governmentof the Visigoth kingdom should be placed unreservedlyin the hands of Amalaric, who was now grown up toman
The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain . hthe emperor, to forget their jealousies of race andcreed, and to labour unitedly for the common welfareof the people. Above all, he charged them to befaithful to those great principles of equal justice to all,of strict obedience to law, which at heart he hadalways loved, even though, amid the infirmities of ageand blinded hy panic terror, he had for a moment letthem slip. He further directed that the governmentof the Visigoth kingdom should be placed unreservedlyin the hands of Amalaric, who was now grown up tomanhood, and no longer needed a guardian. On the thirtieth of August Theoderic died. Hisremains, enclosed in a coffin of porphyry, were placedin a vast circular tomb of white marble at Ravenna,which afterwards became the church of Santa Mariadella Rotonda, and still remains entire, though nolonger used for worship. A century or two afterTheoderics death, w^hen the Goths had been drivenout of Italy and the Catholics were once moresupreme, the tomb was robbed of its contents. The. fill a 3 t/i 733 C S X o l> rt u T3 — ja •^ O o* • c?« rt o o ^ -<^ i:; .o — ^ 5 oo 2 O to c rr C ^rt - o o (M ° ^^ /•I ^ t-* _M -5 -a•^ o .r/ o 2 o i-rt — 0 s 1 o ^ -c. o •- c T! 3 : c3 = 1 u C rt .5 M o Cj ill HIS TOMB VIOLATED. l8g porphyry coffin was found at the door of a neighbour-ing monastery. What became of the body wasunknown, but a discovery made some thirty yearsago may, it has been supposed, possibly throw somelight upon the question. In the year 1854 somelabourers who were excavating a dock, one or twohundred yards from the tomb of Theoderic, cameupon a skeleton in golden armour, with large jewelsin the helmet and the hilt of the sword. The placewas an ancient cemetery, but the body had evidentlynot been regularly buried; it had just been thrust intothe earth in as hurried a manner as possible. Theworkmen had int
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