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Stilicho

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Stilicho
Flavius . ?365--408 ad, Roman general and statesman, born a Vandal. As the guardian of Emperor Theodosius' son Honorius, he was effective ruler of the Western Roman Empire (395--408), which he defended against the Visigoths


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The usual suspects are here--More, Colet, Medwall, Elyot--but so are good readings of the Somnium Vigilantis, of Thomas Chaundler's Libellus, and of Osbern Bokenham; Stilicho enters as a resonant exemplum (the savvy arguments of A.
Claudian alludes to the Gigantomachy to describe the opponents of Stilicho in his Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti: rupta si mole Typhoeus prosiliat, vinclis Tityos si membra resolvat, si furor Enceladi proiecta mugiat Aetna, opposito Stilichone cadent.
4) Shippey (225) cites Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as possibly yielding a name-model for Radagast in "Radagaisus," the Gothic leader defeated by the "barbarian" Imperial generalissimo Stilicho in 405 AD.
 
 
 
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