>At that time they say that the Emperor Honorius in Ravenna received the message from one of the eunuchs, evidently a keeper of the poultry, that Rome had perished. And he cried out and said, ‘And yet it has just eaten from my hands!’ For he had a very large cock, Rome by name; and the eunuch comprehending his words said that it was the city of Rome which had perished at the hands of Alaric, and the emperor with a sigh of relief answered quickly: ‘But I thought that my fowl Rome had perished.’ So great, they say, was the folly with which this emperor was possessed.
Currently reading At the Gates of Rome, starts from the ascension of Emperor Valens and his death at Adrianople and goes over all events till the Gothic sack of 410. Both of the child emperors were fucking idiots led by the people around them, frankly they should’ve never been given the empire, just their daddy’s nepotism gave them so much power.
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All these RVBY memes have me feeling like I have to watch it at some point
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>At that time they say that the Emperor Honorius in Ravenna received the message from one of the eunuchs, evidently a keeper of the poultry, that Rome had perished. And he cried out and said, ‘And yet it has just eaten from my hands!’ For he had a very large cock, Rome by name; and the eunuch comprehending his words said that it was the city of Rome which had perished at the hands of Alaric, and the emperor with a sigh of relief answered quickly: ‘But I thought that my fowl Rome had perished.’ So great, they say, was the folly with which this emperor was possessed.
– Procopius writing on the Emperor’s reaction to the [410CE Sack of Rome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(410))
Currently reading At the Gates of Rome, starts from the ascension of Emperor Valens and his death at Adrianople and goes over all events till the Gothic sack of 410. Both of the child emperors were fucking idiots led by the people around them, frankly they should’ve never been given the empire, just their daddy’s nepotism gave them so much power.
All these RVBY memes have me feeling like I have to watch it at some point