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The feast of twenty-two thousand tables served by twenty-two thousand purveyors; the naval fights on artificial lakes, etc., have not, however, been imitated by the Herulian, Lombard, and Frankish chieftains, who would have their festivity equally celebrated.
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After defeating and killing Orestes at Pavia, the Herulian Odovacar (Odoacer) deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor of the west, at Ravenna.
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In the year 476, Romulus Augustulus, the last of the Western Emperors, handed over the name as well as the substance of sole power to the Herulian chief Odoacer, the first King of Italy; and the Roman Senate, still in theory the supreme governing body of the civilised world, formally renounced its sovereignty, and declared its dominions a diocese of the Byzantine Empire.
Latin Literature 1902
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Herulian Cohort of the Fourth Legion we were quartered in Rome itself, and I saw much of the Christians, but I could never learn anything from them which I had not heard from my own father, whom you, in your arrogance, would call a Pagan.
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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The vanguard of the Roman army was stationed near the Po, under the conduct of Fulcaris, a bold Herulian, who rashly conceived that personal bravery was the sole duty and merit of a commander.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Herulian, who rashly conceived that personal bravery was the sole duty and merit of a commander.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Fulcaris, a bold Herulian, who rashly conceived that personal bravery was the sole duty and merit of a commander.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Petulant and Herulian and Dutch hearts!) told him very plainly that that kind of thing would not wash with them: "Come!" said they; "no nonsense of this sort; be you our emperor, and
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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