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Alaric (d. 410) The great chieftain of the Visigoths. He makes his first appearance in history in the struggle of the Goths against Theodosius. Pillaged Rome for three days in 410.
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 341. (Alaric before Rome, Drawn by A. de Neuville)
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