. The book of similitudes: . ving becomea mass of luxury, weakness, and profligacy, fell aneasy prey to the surrounding barbarous kingdom of the Heruli lasted about twentyyears. The nation of the Ostrogoths, or EasternGoths, under their prince, Theodoric, invadedItaly. After a struggle of four years, Odoacersurrendered all Italy to the conqueror, and Theo-doric (commonly called the Great) was acknowl-edged the sovereign of the country, and fixed hisresidence at Ravenna. He reigned about thirty-three years, and has the reputation of being anable and virtuous prince. The successors o
. The book of similitudes: . ving becomea mass of luxury, weakness, and profligacy, fell aneasy prey to the surrounding barbarous kingdom of the Heruli lasted about twentyyears. The nation of the Ostrogoths, or EasternGoths, under their prince, Theodoric, invadedItaly. After a struggle of four years, Odoacersurrendered all Italy to the conqueror, and Theo-doric (commonly called the Great) was acknowl-edged the sovereign of the country, and fixed hisresidence at Ravenna. He reigned about thirty-three years, and has the reputation of being anable and virtuous prince. The successors of Theo-doric, in the Gothic kingdom of Italy, were sevenin number; they were succeeded in the sover-eignty by the Lombards, another Gothic Goths, at the time of their taking Rome,under Alaric, had partially embraced Christianity,and though they retained a portion of their bar-barian manners, when they settled in Italy, wereat least as virtuous as the native citizens. 344 MODERN HISTOEY. A. D. 500 to A. I>. SIXTH CENTURY. The sixth century was distinguished by violent contentionsbetween the bishops of Rome and Constantinople for thesupremacy : excommunication and persecution followed. Dur-ing the latter part of the century, Christianity was introducedinto Britain by Augustine, who, being favored by the Anglo-Saxon king and queen of Kent, many converts were ,the great leader of the Arabs or Saracens, began his Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, now beganto reign, and by his wisdom and power exercisedsupremacy over the other monarchs of his rebuked or praised the potentates of Europeas if they had been his children, and gave themadvice respecting their affairs, to which they sub- MODERN HISTORY, 345 mitted. He imprisoned the bishop of Rome fordisobedience of orders in a commission he hadgiven him. Theodoric gave the command of his armies toBelisarius, who, in a short time, made the con-quest of Italy, took Naples, and put the inhabi-tants t
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