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Background

Gildo, Moor by birth, received in 386 as reward for his military merits from general Theodosius the Elder, father to emperor Theododius the Great, an appointment as Comes Africae and Magister utriusque militiae per Africam. He ruled the province as a bloodthirsty, cruel tyrant from 386 until his death in 398. This province was, after the loss of Egypt to the Eastern Roman empire, designated as the granary of Rome. Incited by the political machinations of the eunuch Eutropius Gildo seriously entertained the notion of joining the Eastern Roman empire, which led to civil turmoil in Rome for fear of possible food shortages. Stilicho used complaints made by inhabitants of the province regarding Gildo's crimes to persuade the Senate to declare him "enemy of the State" and start a war against him. Copyrighted Image Photo courtesy of Wayne B. Chandler Moorish Ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula including the present day Spain and Portugal) and the Maghreb and western Africa, whose culture is often called Moorish. ... For the processor, see Intel 80386. ... Count Theodosius, also known as Flavius Theodosius, a senior military officer serving in the western part of the Roman Empire. ... On the reverse of this coin minted under Valentinian II, both Valentinian and Theodosius are depicted with halos. ... Comes (genitive: comitis) is the Latin word for companion, either individually or as a member of a collective known as comitatus (compare comitatenses), especially the suite of a magnate, in some cases large and/or formal enough to have a specific name, such as a cohors amicorum. ... Roman North Africa The Roman Empire ca. ... A tyrant (from Greek τύραννος týrannos) possesses absolute power in a state or in an organisation: one refers to this mode of rule as a tyranny. ... For the processor, see Intel 80386. ... Events John Chrysostom becomes bishop of Constantinople. ... Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered around its capital in Constantinople. ... i rule:Forum Romanum panorama 2. ... Eutropius was a pagan Roman historian of the later 4th century, writing in Latin, whose brief remarks about himself let us know that he had served under Emperor Julian the Apostate (ruled 361 - 363) and his history covers the reigns of Valentinian and Valens (died 378). ... The Roman Senate (Latin, Senatus) was a deliberative body which was important in the government of both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. ...

The war in Africa

Stilicho sent the brother of Gildo, Mascezel, together with some 5,000 Gallic veterans to Africa. This was countered by a force of some 70,000, consisting of the Roman legions already present in Africa, complemented with a huge cavalery of mercenaries from Gaetulia and Ethiopia. As Mascezel approached with offers of peace, he first encountered the standardbearer of one of the African legions. When he refused to yield, Mascezel struck him on the arm with his sword. As a result the standardbearer lowered the standard, which was incorrectly perceived by the troops as a sign of submission. All other standardbearers of the frontline followed the example, and the disaffected cohorts turned against Gildo and began shouting the name of their new commander. The barbarian mercenaries were amazed at the disloyalty of their Roman allies and took to a tumultuous flight. Map of Gaul circa 58 BC Gaul (Latin Gallia, Greek Galatia) was the region of Western Europe occupied by present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river. ... A modern reconstruction of a roman centurion around 70 AD The Roman legion (from Latin , from lego, legere, legi, lectus — to collect) was the basic military unit of the ancient Roman army. ... Gaetulia is the name of a Roman Province in present-day southern Algeria. ... An aquilifer was the standard bearer of a Roman legion. ... Cohort may mean: Cohort (military unit), a Roman legion. ... // Greek origin of the term Barbarian comes the French barbarien or Medieval Latin barbarinus, from Latin barbaria, from Latin barbarus, from the ancient Greek word βάρβαρος (barbaros) which meant a non-Greek, someone whose (first) language was not Greek. ...

Aftermath

The honour of an easy and almost bloodless victory fell to Mascezel, while Gildo tried to flee in a small boat, hoping to reach the friendly shores of the Eastern Roman empire. However, unfavourable winds drove the vessel back to the harbour of Tabraca, where the inhabitants were eager to display their new loyalty by throwing Gildo in the dungeons. To avoid the revenge of his brother (Gildo had the two sons of Mascezel murdered), Gildo committed suicide by hanging. Mascezel died shortly after his brother. On his triumphant return to the Roman court in Milan, Stilicho received him with much ceremony and jealousy. He drowned when he, in the company of Stilicho, crossed a bridge and fell in the water, either by accident, or pushed on orders of Stilicho. Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ... Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese: Milán) is the main city of northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed region in Italy. ...

External links

• Passages from Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• "The war against Gildo" from Claudius Claudianus, courtpoet of a.o. Stilicho
• Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, blz 268