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Genseric

noun
1.
King of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477).  Synonym: Gaiseric.






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... where Maeotis sleeps, and hardly flows The freezing Tanais through a waste of snows, The North by myriads pours her mighty sons, Great nurse of Goths, of Alans, and of Huns! 90 See Alaric's stern port! the martial frame Of Genseric! and Attila's dread name! See the bold Ostrogoths on Latium fall; See the fierce Visigoths on Spain and Gaul! See, where the morning gilds the palmy shore, (The soil that arts and infant letters bore,) His conquering tribes the Arabian prophet draws, And saving ignorance enthrones ...
— Poetical Works of Pope, Vol. II • Alexander Pope



Words linked to "Genseric" :   male monarch, Rex, king



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