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for him, since he was able neither by force nor by any other means to take the place, both to give up the siege, which had already gone on for a very long time, and to order the whole army to make preparations for the withdrawal immediately, so that on the next day they would all depart from there at sunrise. 3.4.32 But on the following day around sunrise, the barbarians, having broken the siege, were already beginning their departure, but one stork on a certain tower of the city's circuit wall, which had a nest and was feeding its young, suddenly departed from there with its children. 3.4.33 And the father stork was flying, but the young storks, since they were not yet completely able to fly, were partly sharing in his flight, and partly being carried on their father's back, and so 3.4.34 flying away, they got very far from the city. Which Attila, having observed (for he was most clever at understanding and interpreting all things), ordered the army to remain again in the same place, saying that the bird would never have flown away from there idly with its young, unless it had divined that something bad would befall the place before long. 3.4.35 Thus they say the camp of the barbarians was again set to the siege, and not much later that a certain part of the circuit wall, the very one which held this bird's nest, for no reason suddenly collapsed and the city thereby became accessible to the enemy, and thus Aquileia was taken by storm. So the affairs concerning Aquileia came to this pass. 3.4.36 But later Maximus killed the emperor with no trouble and seized the tyranny, and he lay with Eudoxia by force. For the wife who lived with him had died not long before. And once in bed he made a speech to her that for the sake of his love for her he had 3.4.37 accomplished all that he had done. And the speech made Eudoxia, who was vexed with Maximus already and desired to punish him for the injustice toward Valentinian, swell with rage against him even more, and it drove her to plotting, since she heard Maximus saying that the calamity had befallen her husband on her account. 3.4.38 And as soon as day came, she sends to Carthage, begging Gizeric to avenge Valentinian, who had been destroyed by an unholy man, unworthily of himself and of his imperial power, and to rescue her, suffering unholy things from the tyrant. 3.4.39 And she charged Gizeric, as a friend and ally, that with so great a calamity having befallen the house of the emperor, it was not right not to become an avenger. For she thought there would be no vengeance from Byzantium, since Theodosius had already departed from among men, and Marcian had taken over the empire. 3.5.1 But Gizeric, for no other reason than that he suspected great sums of money would be his, sailed to Italy with a large fleet. And going up to Rome, since no one stood in his way, he gained control of the palace. 3.5.2 So as Maximus was fleeing, the Romans killed him by throwing stones, and cutting off his head and each of his other limbs, 3.5.3 they divided them among themselves. And Gizeric took Eudoxia captive along with Eudocia and Placidia, her and Valentinian's daughters, and putting a great amount of gold and the other imperial possessions on his ships, he sailed to Carthage, sparing neither bronze nor anything else whatever in the palace. 3.5.4 And he plundered also the temple of Capitoline Jupiter and took off half of the roof. And this roof happened to be of the finest bronze, but with thick gold poured over it, it appeared most magnificent and worthy of much admiration. 3.5.5 But of the ships with Gizeric, they say one, which was carrying the statues, was lost, but with all the others the Vandals put into the harbor of Carthage. 3.5.6 Gizeric therefore married Eudocia to Honoric, the elder of his sons, but the other one (for she was married to a man, Olybrius, a most distinguished member of the Roman senate) he sent with her mother Eudoxia to Byzantium, at the request 3.5.7 of the emperor. And already the power of the East had passed to Leo,

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