Stileca

Stileca se wæs on Rōmwarum Flauius Stilicho, wæs heretoga þæs [Rōmānisc Rīce|Rēmiscan Rīces]] in þæs Westrīces endmestan dagum. Ymbe 359 wæs Stileca geboren and he stearf in 408 in Onories Cāseres dagum. He wæs ealdorman þæs Rēmiscan heres be naman magister militum and in swylcum ambeht wæs he þæs rīces strengstan mann.^[1] Nōðȳlǣs Stileca næs of Rōmwarum; he wæs of Wendlum.

His wīf wæs Serena sēo wæs Þeodosies I Cāseres nift and he ricsode swa weardhlaford for Onorie Cāsere þan wæs Honorius cild.^[2] Manig sige gewonne he for Rōme wið Germaniefolcas and in ingewinne ac his fiend in hired wæron manig and in 408 wæs he behēafden.^[3]

Ēadweard Gibbon sæd ðe Stileca wæs 'Endmesta þāra Rēmiscan Heretogan'.^[4]

1. ↑ Stephen Mitchell. A History of the Later Roman Empire AD 284–641. Singapore: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, p. 89.
2. ↑ Joseph Vogt. The Decline of Rome: The Metamorphosis of Ancient Civilization. Trans. Janet Sondheimer. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967, p. 179.
3. ↑ Simon Hornblower and Anthony Spawforth eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary, third edition. Oxford University Press, 1996 1444.
4. ↑ Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ed. J.B. Bury. Vol. III. London: Methuen & Co., 1925, p. 225.