[71] From "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Alaric was king of the West Goths. He died in the year Rome was sacked, and was buried with vast treasure in the bed of the river Busento.
[72] From Chapter 50 of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Hosein was a grandson of Mohammed, founder of the faith that bears his name.
[73] Babylonia.
[74] The Roman emperor still retained the title of Cæsar.
[75] Chosroes is better known in our day as Phusrau, one of the kings of Persia.
[76] The reputed founder of the Mohammedan sect called Yezidis.
[77] From the final chapter of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
[78] A Tuscan author and antiquarian, born in 1381, died in 1495; at one time secretary of the papal curia; author of a history of Florence, but chiefly remembered for having recovered works in Roman literature, including eight orations of Cicero.