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Go^ and Magog, the famous rampart of, described, vii, 142.
Gnsvini/ta, wife of Leovigild king of Spain , her pious cruelty to the princessIngimdis, v.i, 291.
Gold of affliction, the tax so denominated in the eastern empire, abolishedby the emperor Anastasius , \ii, 101.
Golden horn, why the Bosphorus obtained this appellation in remote anti-quity, iii, 7.
Gordianus, proconsul of Africa, his character and elevation to the em-pire of Home, i, 282. His son associated with him in the imperial dig-nity, 284.
Gordian, the third and youngest, declared Caesar, i, 294. Is declared em-peror by the army, on the murder of Maximus and Balbinus , 306.
Gotht of Scandinavia , their 'origin, i, 387. Tlieir religion, 389. TheGoths and Vandals supposed to be originally one great people, 392.Their emigrations to Prussia and the Ukraine , 393. They invade theHoman provinces, 397. They receive tribute from the Homans, 406.They subdue the Bosphorus , 423. Plunder the cities of IJithynia, 426.'They ravage Greece , 430. Conclude a treaty with the emperor Aure-lian, ii, 18. They ravage Illyricum, and are chastised by Constantinethe Great , 252.
- their war with the Sannatians, iii, 123. Are again routed by Con-stantine, 124. Gothic war under the emperors Vateiitinian and Valens ,
iv, 320. Are defeated by the Huns , 370. They implore the protectionof the emperor Valens , 375. They are received into the empire, 378.They are oppressed by the Roman governors of Thrace , 381. Areprovoked to hostilities, and defeat Lupicinus, 384. 'They ravageThrace , 388. Battle of Salices, 393. They are strengthened by freshswarms of their countrymen, 394. Battle of Hadrianople, 404. Scourthe country from Hadrianople to Constantinople , 410. Massacre of theGothic youth in Asia , 414. Their formidable union broken by the deathof Pritigern, 426. Death and funeral of Athanaric , 428. Invasion anddefeat of the Ostrogoths, 430. Are settled in Thrace, by Theodosius ,433. Their hostile sentiments, 436.
- revolt of, under Honorins, v, 176. They ravage Greece , under the
command of Alaric, 179. Tltey invade Italy, 190 The sack of Rome by, 308. Death of Alaric, 326. Victories of Wallia in Spain , 352.'They are settled in Aquitain, 355. See Gant and Theodoric . Conquestof the Visigoths in Gaul and Spain, vi, 202. How the Goths were con-verted to the Christian religion, 266, 293.
- reign of Theodoric king of the Ostrogoths, vii, 2. The Goths in
Government, civil, the origin of, i, 362.
Governors of provinces, under the emperors, their great power and influ-ence, iii, 56.
Gratian was the first emperor who refused the pontifical robe, iii, 407, note .Marries the princess Constantia, and succeeds to the empire, iv, 332.Defeats the Aiemanni in Gaul, 397. Invests Theodosius with the em-pire of the East, 416.
- his character and conduct, v, 1. His flight from Maximus, and
death, 8. Overthrew the ecclesiastical establishment of paganism, 95.
Greece is ravaged by the Goths, i, 430. Is over-run by Alaric , the Goth,
v, 179. Is reduced by the 'Turks, xii, 242.
Greek church, origin of the schism of, xi, 166; xii, 108, 142.
Greeks, why averse to the Roman language and manners, i, 161. The