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The sack of Rome
24 Aug 410 — Alaric’s Goths, refused land and pay for a decade, enter by the Salarian Gate. Three days of looting; the world’s psychological capital falls. Jerome: “the city which had taken the whole world was itself taken.”
This is one scene of Chapter 10 — The Storm from the North in The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476.
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