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# The Panchatantra (Purnabhadra's Recension of 1199 CE)/Book 5/The Lion-Makers

THE LION-MAKERS
In a certain town were four Brahmans who lived in friendship. Three of them had reached the far shore of all scholarship, but lacked sense. The other found scholarship distasteful; he had nothing but sense.
One day they met for consultation. "What is the use of attainments," said they, "if one does not travel, win the favor of kings, and acquire money? Whatever we do, let us all travel."
But when they had gone a little way, the eldest of them said: "One of us, the fourth, is a dullard, having nothing but sense. Now nobody gains the favorable attention of kings by simple sense without scholarship. Therefore we will not share our earnings with him. Let him turn back and go home."
​ Then the second said: "My intelligent friend, you lack scholarship. Please go home." But the third said: "No, no. This is no way to behave. For we have played together since we were little boys. Come along, my noble friend. You shall have a share of the money we earn."
With this agreement they continued their journey, and in a forest they found the bones of a dead lion. Thereupon one of them said: "A good opportunity to test the ripeness of our scholarship. Here lies some kind of creature, dead. Let us bring it to life by means of the scholarship we have honestly won."
Then the first said: "I know how to assemble the skeleton." The second said: "I can supply skin, flesh, and blood." The third said: "I can give it life."
So the first assembled the skeleton, the second provided skin, flesh, and blood. But while the third was intent on giving the breath of life, the man of sense advised against it, remarking: "This is a lion. If you bring him to life, he will kill every one of us."
"You simpleton!" said the other, "it is not I who will reduce scholarship to a nullity." "In that case," came the reply, "wait a moment, while I climb this convenient tree."
When this had been done, the lion was brought to life, rose up, and killed all three. But the man of sense, after the lion had gone elsewhere, climbed down and went home.
Scholarship is less than sense, . . . .
and the rest of it."
But the wheel-bearer, having heard the story, retorted: "Not at all. The reasoning is at fault. For creatures of very great sense perish if stricken by fate, while those of very meager intelligence, if protected by fate, live happily. There is a stanza:
While Hundred-Wit is on a head, While Thousand-Wit hangs limp and dead, Your humble Single-Wit, my dear, Is paddling in the water clear."
"How was that?" asked the gold-finder. And the wheel-bearer told the story of
HUNDRED-WIT, THOUSAND-WIT, AND SINGLE-WIT
# The Panchatantra (Purnabhadra's Recension of 1199 CE)/Book 5/The Loyal Mungoose

THE LOYAL MUNGOOSE
There was once a Brahman named Godly in a certain town. His wife mothered a single son and a mungoose. And as she loved little ones, she cared for the mungoose also like a son, giving him milk from her breast, and salves, and baths, and so on. But she did not trust him, for she thought: "A mungoose is a ​nasty kind of creature. He might hurt my boy." Yes, there is sense in the proverb:
A son will ever bring delight, Though bent on folly, passion, spite, Though shabby, naughty, and a fright.
One day she tucked her son in bed, took a water-jar, and said to her husband: "Now, Professor, I am going for water. You must protect the boy from the mungoose." But when she was gone, the Brahman went off somewhere himself to beg food, leaving the house empty.
While he was gone, a black snake issued from his hole and, as fate would have it, crawled toward the baby's cradle. But the mungoose, feeling him to be a natural enemy, and fearing for the life of his baby brother, fell upon the vicious serpent halfway, joined battle with him, tore him to bits, and tossed the pieces far and wide. Then, delighted with his own heroism, he ran, blood trickling from his mouth, to meet the mother; for he wished to show what he had done.
But when the mother saw him coming, saw his bloody mouth and his excitement, she feared that the villain must have eaten her baby boy, and without thinking twice, she angrily dropped the water-jar upon him, which killed him the moment that it struck. There she left him without a second thought, and hurried home, where she found the baby safe and sound, and near the cradle a great black snake, torn to bits. Then, overwhelmed with sorrow because she ​had thoughtlessly killed her benefactor, her son, she beat her head and breast.
At this moment the Brahman came home with a dish of rice gruel which he had got from someone in his begging tour, and saw his wife bitterly lamenting her son, the mungoose. "Greedy! Greedy!" she cried. "Because you did not do as I told you, you must now taste the bitterness of a son's death, the fruit of the tree of your own wickedness. Yes, this is what happens to those blinded by greed. For the proverb says:
Indulge in no excessive greed (A little helps in time of need)— A greedy fellow in the world Found on his head a wheel that whirled."
"How was that?" asked the Brahman. And his wife told the story of
THE FOUR TREASURE-SEEKERS
# The New International Encyclopædia/Porto Novo (Dahomey)

Edition of 1905. See also Porto-Novo on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
​PORTO NOVO, nō′vō̇. The capital of the French West African colony of Dahomey, situated a short distance from the Gulf of Guinea and connected by a lagoon with the seaport of Kotonu. It trades in palm oil and kernels. Porto Novo was the capital of the negro State of the same name, incorporated in 1893, with the colony of Dahomey. Population, estimated at 50,000.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Porto Novo (Madras)

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​PORTO NOVO. A seaport town of Madras, British India, situated on the Coromandel Coast, 15 miles south of Cuddalore (Map: India, D 6). Both the Portuguese and the Dutch had a factory here in the seventeenth century. Porto Novo is celebrated for its iron foundry, which supplied much of the material for the Madras railways, but is chiefly famous for the battle fought here on July 1, 1781, when Sir Eyre Coote, retreating after his defeat at Chidambaram, was again attacked by Hyder Ali with an oerwhelming force, and by adroit strategy routed his assailants with great loss. Population of Porto Novo, called by the natives Parangipetta, about 14,100.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Porto Santo

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​PORTO SANTO, sän′tō̇. One of the Madeira Islands (q.v.).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Porto Torres

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​PORTO TORRES, tōr′rā̇s. A seaport in Sardinia. See Sassari.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Porto Maggiore

Edition of 1905. See also Portomaggiore on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
​PORTO MAGGIORE, pōr′tō̇ mȧd-jō′rā̇. A town in the Province of Ferrara, Italy, situated on an island in the lagoons of the Commachio, about 15 miles by rail southeast of Ferrara (Map: Italy, F 3). The products are grain, beet root, and rope, and there is a trade in cattle and fish. Population (commune), in 1901, 20,162.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Porto Rican Expedition, Military and Naval Society of the

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​PORTO RICAN EXPEDITION, Military and Naval Society of the. A patriotic society projected at Caguas, Porto Rico, October 11, 1898, and organized at Columbus, Ohio, June 5, 1900. It comprises: (1) Active members, who as officers or enlisted men in any branch of the United States service with the Porto Rican expedition were on the island before or on October 18, 1898, the date of the raising of the American flag over the Capitol at San Juan; (2) associate members, who are soldiers or sailors of good reputation belonging to organizations or vessels which composed the expedition, but who were detained in the United States by sickness or disability, or on detached service, as well as members of the Red Cross Society, volunteer nurses, etc., who served with the army in Porto Rico; and (3) honorary members. The membership, which is about 500, is distributed among departments, as follows: Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Kentucky, Wisconsin, and District of Columbia.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Porto Maurizio

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​PORTO MAURIZIO, mou-rēt′sē̇-ō̇. The capital of the Province of Porto Maurizio, Italy, situated on a promontory projecting into the Ligurian Sea, 58 miles by rail southwest of Genoa (Map: Italy, C 4). It is a winter resort, has a fine church, a library, a theatre, a technical institute, and a school of navigation. There is a shipping trade in olive oil, agricultural produce, and fish. Population (commune), in 1901, 7141.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Posidippus

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POS'IDIP′PUS, or POSEIDIPPUS (Lat., from Gk. Ποσείδιππος, Poseidippos). A Greek comic poet, the last exponent of the new comedy, dating from the first half of the third century B.C. He was born at Cassandria in Macedon, lived at Athens, and wrote 40 comedies, of which 18 titles have come down to us, and a few fragments, published in Kock, Comicorum Atttcorum Fragmenta. His Didymoi ("The Twins") was the original of Plautus's Menæchmi and of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. It is probable that others of his plays were imitated by the Roman comedian. A remarkably fine statue of Posidippus is in the Vatican at Rome.
# The Old Man's Angelus

Frances O'Brien, writing as Attie O'Brien; as published in The Irish Monthly. Vol. 9, No. 92 (Feb., 1881), pp. 99-100.
THE OLD MAN'S ANGELUS
BY ATTIE O'BRIEN.
An old man sits by the cottage door;
The winds are hushed on the sunlit hills;
He tells his rosary softly o'er,
Till sudden music the silence thrills— A holy sound which he loves full well,
The clangour sweet of the Angelus Bell.
Raising to heaven his sightless eyes,
He lifts the hat from his long, white hair;
He cannot gaze on the blue bright skies,
But a radiant world to him seems there,
From which the bell's melodious chime
Breaks on the echoing shores of time.
When first it sung from the old church tower
The wondrous words which an angel spoke,
It touched his heart with a mystic power— His soul to a wider life awoke;
It grew, like a friendly voice, more dear,
Through the saddening lapse of each changing year.
How warm were the hours when life was young!
His heart by a tender tone was thrilled;
Swift fell the words from the eager tongue,
The earth with a strange new joy was filled.
But the Angelus chiming seemed to say:
"Ah, youth and its love-dreams pass away."
Solemn and sweet in the sun-flushed morn,
It woke strong thoughts for the day's long toil;
It fell when the heat of day was borne,
A rain from heaven on parched soil.
It checked at even the weary sigh,
And gently whispered that rest was nigh.
He sinned—it smote on his shrinking ears,
Like the wak'ning angers trump of doom;
He grieves—in its silver tone he hears
Celestial promise of joy to come,
In God's great city, where sin nor pain
Shall ever shadow his heart again.
Pallid and worn, on his bed he lies,
Calm 'neath the angel of death's bright wings;
"There's light," he said, "will the sun soon rise? Maybe I'd sleep when the Angelus rings."
When the bells rang in the bright'ning day,
The soul of the old man passed away.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The Old Maid (Balzac)/Addendum

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
(Note: The Collection of Antiquities is a companion piece to The Old Maid. In other Addendum appearances they are combined under the title of The Jealousies of a Country Town.)
Bordin
    The Gondreville Mystery
    The Seamy Side of History
    The Commission in Lunacy
Bousquier, Du (or Du Croisier or Du Bourguier)
    The Collection of Antiquities
    The Middle Classes
Bousquier, Madame du (du Croisier) (Mlle. Cormon)
    The Collection of Antiquities
Casteran, De
    The Chouans
    The Seamy Side of History
    The Collection of Antiquities
    Beatrix
    The Peasantry
Chesnel (or Choisnel)
    The Seamy Side of History
    The Collection of Antiquities
Coudrai, Du
    The Collection of Antiquities
Esgrignon, Charles-Marie-Victor-Ange-Carol, Marquis d' (or Des Grignons)
    The Chouans
    The Collection of Antiquities
Esgrignon, Marie-Armande-Claire d'
    The Collection of Antiquities
Gaillard, Madame Theodore (Suzanne)
    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
    A Bachelor's Establishment
    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
    Beatrix
    The Unconscious Humorists
Granson, Athanase
    The Government Clerks
Lenoncourt, Duc de
    The Lily of the Valley
    Cesar Birotteau
    The Collection of Antiquities
    The Gondreville Mystery
    Beatrix
Navarreins, Duc de
    Colonel Chabert
    The Muse of the Department
    The Thirteen
    The Peasantry
    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
    The Country Parson
    The Magic Skin
    The Gondreville Mystery
    The Secrets of a Princess
    Cousin Betty
Pombreton, Marquis de
    Lost Illusions
    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Ronceret, Du
    The Collection of Antiquities
    Beatrix
Ronceret, Madame Du
    The Collection of Antiquities
Simeuse, Admiral de
    Beatrix
    The Gondreville Mystery
Troisville, Guibelin, Vicomte de
    The Seamy Side of History
    The Chouans
    The Collection of Antiquities
    The Peasantry
Valois, Chevalier de
    The Chouans
    The Collection of Antiquities
Verneuil, Duc de
    The Chouans
    The Collection of Antiquities
# The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them

Parodied by Lewis Carroll's poem You Are Old, Father William. Below as rendered in Metrical Tales &c. by Robert Southey (1805).
You are old, Father William, the young man cried, The few locks which are left you are grey; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man, Now tell me the reason I pray.
In the days of my youth, Father William replied, I remember'd that youth would fly fast, And abused not my health and my vigour at first That I never might need them at last.
You are old, Father William, the young man cried, And pleasures with youth pass away, And yet you lament not the days that are gone, Now tell me the reason I pray.
In the days of my youth, Father William replied, I remember'd that youth could not last; I thought of the future whatever I did, That I never might grieve for the past.
You are old, Father William, the young man cried, And life must be hastening away; You are chearful, and love to converse upon death! Now tell me the reason I pray.
I am chearful, young man, Father William replied, Let the cause thy attention engage; In the days of my youth I remember'd my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.
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# The Old Maid (Balzac)

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Original French title: "La Vieille Fille". First published 1837. Included as part of La Comédie humaine.
    To Monsieur Eugene-Auguste-Georges-Louis Midy de la Greneraye Surville, Royal Engineer of the Ponts at Chausses.
    As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law,
    De Balzac
* Chapter I: ONE OF MANY CHEVALIERS DE VALOIS
* Chapter II: SUSANNAH AND THE ELDERS
* Chapter III: ATHANASE
* Chapter III: MADEMOISELLE CORMON
* Chapter V: AN OLD MAID'S HOUSEHOLD
* Chapter VI: FINAL DISAPPOINTMENT AND ITS FIRST RESULT
* Chapter VII: OTHER RESULTS
* Addendum
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The New Student's Reference Work/Valencia (Venezuela)

See also Valencia, Carabobo on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
​ ​ ​ ​Valencia, a town of Venezuela, South America, in the province of Carácas, two miles east of Lake Valencia. The city is situated in an exceedingly fertile district, in which cattle and horses are raised in great numbers. Population 38,654. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​
# The New Student's Reference Work/Valentine, Basil

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​Val′entine, Basil, a celebrated German alchemist of whom so little is known that it is even disputed whether he lived in the 12th or in the 13th century. It has been maintained that he was a monk of the order of St. Benedict in St. Peter's convent at Erfurt; but his name does not appear on the Erfurt list nor on the general lists at Rome. His works were mostly written in the old Upper-Saxon dialect, and were not printed until 1602, after which many of them were published in the form of French translations.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Valentinus

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​Valentinus was the most important Christian theologian before Origen. He sought to combine the results of Greek philosophy with the doctrines of the Gospel, and treated the manifestation of Jesus as the keystone in the structure of thought which Greek science had reared. He may be regarded as superior to Philo in many respects and as having surpassed Origen in delicacy of perception and vigor of style, although he was far behind him in the extent of his learning. He came to Rome from Egypt about 138 A. D., and died about 160.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Valetta

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​Valet′ta, an important fortress and beautiful city, capital of the island of Malta. The city was founded by John Parisot de la Valette, who so gallantly defended the island of Malta against the Turkish fleet in 1565. Alone and unsupported by any of the Christian powers, La Valette held the island under circumstances of great difficulty and distress; and at the end of four months the Turks were compelled to withdraw, after suffering a loss of several thousand men. The city contains many relics of the occupation by the Knights of Malta. Population 60,000. See Malta.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Valjean, Jean

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​Val′jean′, Jean, the hero of Les Miserables, one of the best known and loved of the romances of Victor Hugo, is a former galley-slave whose life becomes changed through the goodness and kindness of a bishop. The bishop entertains Valjean, who escapes with the precious candlesticks of his host! Valjean is captured and brought back; but the bishop declares he has given him the candlesticks, and makes him a convert. Hereafter, Jean Valjean becomes the guardian of a beautiful girl, Cosette, to whom he devotes his life. The story of Jean Valjean is that love begets love and works miracles. "His whole heart melted in gratitude, and he loved more and more."
# The New Student's Reference Work/Valentinian I

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​Valentin′ian I, emperor of the Western Roman empire from 364 to 375 A. D. As a military officer under Julian and Jovian he rose to a high position, and on the death of Jovian was chosen emperor by the officers of the army at Nicaea. Soon after this he named his brother Valens as his colleague, and the two brothers divided the empire between them, Valentinian, as emperor of the west, taking Italy, Illyricum, Spain, Britain, Gaul and Africa. During Valentinian's reign there were wars in Africa and Germany, and Rome also came into collision with peoples of whom we now hear for the first time —Burgundians, Saxons and Alemanni. The emperor's headquarters were at Treves during the greater portion of his reign. His general administration was wise and able and, in many respects, beneficent. Although hard and exacting in the collection of taxes from his people, the money was spent in defending and improving his dominions, and not in idle show or luxury. He died of apoplexy in 375, and was succeeded by Gratian and Valentian II, his sons.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Valentinian II

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​Valentinian II, an infant four years of age, and his half-brother Gratian, a lad of 17, became joint emperors of the Western Roman empire in 375 A. D. They made Milan their residence, while the empire was at least nominally divided between them, Valentinian taking Italy and a part of Africa. Gratian died in 383, and four years later Maximus, who had commanded a Roman army in Britain, crossed the Alps into the valley of the Po and threatened Milan. The emperor and his mother Justina fled to Theodosius, emperor of the East, and besought his assistance, and. in accordance with their request Theodosius marched into Italy with an army, defeated Maximus, and again set Valentinian on the throne. He was assassinated in 392 A. D.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Valentine

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​Valentine or Valenti′nus, presbyter and martyr, according to the Roman legend, was arrested and thrown into chains at the instance of Emperor Claudius about 270 A. D. He was handed over to Calphurnius, who employed one Asterius to win him back to idolatry, but, instead of this, Asterius was won over to the Christian faith on account of the healing of his blind daughter by Valentine. The saint was kept in prison for a long time, but was finally beheaded. The custom of sending valentines is the survival of a practice connected with the worship of Juno on or about Feb. 14, and its association with this saint is purely accidental.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Valentinian III

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​Valentinian III, grandson of Theodosius the Great, was declared Emperor of the West in 425 A. D. His reign of 30 years was a period of great and terrible events, associated with the names of Attila, Genseric and Ætius, "the last of the Romans." Valentinian's usual residence was at Ravenna; but he fled to Rome in 452 on the approach of Attila, who, after ravaging Italy, died in the following year. In 454 Ætius, who had won the great victory over Attila at Chalons in 451, and who alone could have saved Rome from the destruction which hung over her, was treacherously murdered by Valentinian; and the next year the crime was avenged by the murder of the emperor himself while he was viewing some games in the Campus Martius. With the death of Valentinian the family of Theodosius became extinct.