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The second sack
Jun 455 — Geiseric’s Vandals strip Rome for fourteen days, methodically, down to the gilded temple roof-tiles. The word “vandalism” is their unearned epitaph — they burned nothing.
This is one scene of Chapter 11 — The Fall of the West in The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476.
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