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See also:ARBOGAST (d. 394) , a See also:barbarian officer in the See also:Roman See also:army, at the end of the 4th See also:century. His See also:nationality is uncertain, but See also:Zosimus, See also:Eunapius and Sulpicius See also:Alexander (a Gallo-Roman historian quoted by See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory of See also:Tours) all refer to him as a See also:Frank. Having served with distinction against the Goths in See also:Thrace, he was sent by See also:Theodosius in 388 against See also:Maximus, who had usurped the See also:empire of the See also:west and had murdered See also:Gratian. His See also:complete success, which resulted in the destruction of Maximus and his sons and the pacification of See also:Gaul, led Theodosius to appoint him See also:chief See also:minister for his See also:young See also:brother-in-See also:law
Valentinian II. His See also:rule was most energetic; but while he favoured the barbarians in the imperial service, and appointed them to high See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, Valentinian, openly jealous of his minister, sought to surround himself with See also:Romans. As an offset to this, Arbogast allied himself with the See also:pagan See also:element in See also:Rome, while Valentinian was strictly orthodox. In 392 Valentinian was secretly put to See also:death at See also:Vienne (in Gaul), and Arbogast, naming as his successor See also:Eugenius, a rhetorician, descended into See also:Italy to meet the expedition which Theodosius was heading against him. He proclaimed himself the See also:champion of the old Roman gods, and as a response to the See also:appeal of See also:Ambrose, is said to have threatened to See also:stable his horses in the See also:cathedral of See also:Milan, and to force the monks to fight in his army. His defeat in the hard-fought See also:battle of the Frigidus saved Italy from these dangers. Theodosius, after a two days' fight, gained the victory by the treachery of one of Arbogast's generals, sent to cut off his See also:retreat. Eugenius was captured and executed, but Arbogast escaped to the mountains, where however he slew himself three days afterwards (8th of See also:September 394). Although we have only most distorted narratives upon which to rely—pagan eulogy and See also:Christian denunciation—Arbogast appears to have been one of the greatest soldiers of the later empire, and a statesman of no mean See also:rank. His See also:energy, and his apparent disdain for the effete See also:civilization which he protected, but which did not affect his See also:character, make his See also:personality one of the most interesting of the 4th century.
See T. See also:Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders (188o), vol. i. See also:chap. ii.
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