his army into Wales, and assaulted the town of Genorium. As he stood before it, calling to mind the treachery by which his father and brother had perished, he thus addressed his followers, " Think ye, my noble chiefs, that these walls can protect Vortigern, who has wasted the fertile land of his fathers, expelled the nobles, destroyed the churches, and almost blotted out the Christian religion from sea to sea; and, which is my especial grief, has slain my father and brother by treachery. Now, my noble countrymen, quit yourselves like men, and inflict vengeance on the author of these evils ; after which we will turn our arms against the enemy." Immediately, having brought forward their war-like machines, they tried to throw down the walls. At last, when other means failed, they had recourse to fire, which, once kindled, burnt without intermission until both Vortigern and his tower were consumed. In the year of grace 467, Theodorus,* bishop of the city which received the name of Cyria from Cyrus, king of the Persians, who built it, a man excellently versed in the holy scriptures, flourished as an eminent pillar of the church. In the year of grace 468, Clovis,f king of the Franks, slew Alaric, king of the Goths, ten miles from the city of Poictiers ; Almaric, the son of the latter, making his escape, took refuge in Spain. Clovis subjugates Aguilania, In the year of grace 469, king Clovis subjugated Toulouse, Saintonge, and the whole of Aquitaine, and expelling thence the Arian Goths, established the catholic Franks in their room. Salvian flourishes. In the year of grace 470, Salvian* the presbyter, wrote at Marseilles, a book addressed to Claudian, a presbyter of Vienne, containing an exposition of the last part of Ecclesiastes. * Theodoret is probably meant here ; he is generally supposed to have died about the year 457. t Clovis I. did not begin to reign until 481; there is, therefore, an anachronism in the text. See the Chronicles of Sigebert, Gregory of Tours, &c ; also the Recueil des Hist, des Gaules, iii., 18, note. t Salvian died about 496. VOL. I. C