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| After the Death of Valens the Goths again attack Constantinople, and are repulsed by the Citizens, aided by Some Saracen Auxiliaries.
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Chapter I.—After the
Death of Valens the Goths again attack Constantinople, and are repulsed
by the Citizens, aided by Some Saracen Auxiliaries.
After the Emperor Valens had
thus lost his life, in a manner which has never been satisfactorily
ascertained,680
| 680See Gibbon, Decline and Fall, chap. 26.
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the barbarians again approached the very walls of Constantinople, and
laid waste the suburbs on every side of it. Whereat the people becoming
indignant armed themselves with whatever weapons they could severally
lay hands on, and sallied forth of their own accord against the enemy.
The empress Dominica caused the same pay to be distributed out of the
imperial treasury to such as volunteered to go out on this service, as
was usually allowed to soldiers. A few Saracens also assisted the
citizens, being confederates, who had been sent by Mavia their queen:
the latter we have already mentioned.681
In this way the people having fought at this time, the barbarians
retired to a great distance from the city.
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