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Definition of Gaiseric
1. Noun. King of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaiseric
Literary usage of Gaiseric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1892)
"gaiseric himself had his reasons for viewing the course of events at Rome with
... At length, in the seventh year of their exile, gaiseric sent the widowed ..."
2. The Dynasty of Theodosius: Or, Eighty Years' Struggle with the Barbarians by Thomas Hodgkin (1889)
"Such was the position of affairs in Spain when a gaiseric messenger came from
... but there is no doubt that gaiseric is the more correct form of the name, ..."
3. The History of the Middle Ages by Victor Duruy (1891)
"Taking of Rome by gaiseric (455).— End of the Empire of the West (476). IN the
end of the fourth century there came from the depth of the Steppes which ..."
4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"At the end of fourteen months gaiseric raised the siege of Hippo; ... Let us
make," said gaiseric, " for the dwellings of the men with whom God is angry," ..."
5. The Dark Ages, 476-918 by Charles William Chadwick Oman (1908)
"with gaiseric, Alaric the Goth seemed a model of knightly courtesy, and Attila
the Hun a ... From his contact with the empire, gaiseric had picked up the ..."
6. A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene (395 A.D. to 800 by John Bagnell Bury (1889)
"l The true account seems to be that gaiseric came of his own accord, seeing that
it was a good opportunity for attacking Italy, and considering that the ..."
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