The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes. VVhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories

CAP. XVII.

Of the spoyle which Belissarius broughte out of Aphricke to Constantinople.

BElissarius the valiaunte captaine, after his retourne to Constantinople, and the victorye he gotte of the Vandals, ledde about the Citye the spoyle and captiues, and Gelimeres him selfe captayne of the Vandals: rode aboute Circus in Triumphe with greate pompe and

admiration. Of these spoyles there were very precious monuments to wit of Genzerichus, who had rifled (as I sayd before) the palace of Rome, when as Eudoxia wife to Valentinianus Emperour of the Romaines inhabiting the West dominions of the worlde, lost her husband through the trea∣son of Maximinus, was her selfe very contumeltously defloured, sente for Genzerichus and pro∣mised to deliuer the citye into his handes. Then came Genzerichus, set Rome on fire and broughte Eudoxia with her daughters into Vandalia. At the same time together with other monumentes he tooke away such thinges as Titus the sonne of Vespasian after the winning of Ierusalem had ca∣ried to Rome, that is to say such monumēts as Solomon had cōsecrated vnto God, whome he hono∣red greatly. All which Iustinianus sent backe againe to Ierusalē, for to set forth the seruice of christ our God, and there in verely (as it was very meete) he did God good seruice, seinge they were con∣secrated to him before. Procopius remembreth that then also Gelimeres fell prostrate vpon y^• ground before Iustinianus the Emperour where he sate, behelde all that was done and repeated in his mo∣ther tongue that diuine sentence of Solomon. Vanity of vanities and all is but vanity.* 1.1

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