GIBBON'S HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: FOR THE USE OF Families and Young Persons. VOL. IV. GIBBON'S HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: FOR THE USE OF Families and Poung Persons. REPRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXT, BY THOMAS BOWDLER, Esq. F.R.S. S.A. EDITOR OF THE FAMILY SHAKSPEARE. O Hamlet! thou hast cleft my heart in twain. O, throw away the worser part of it; And live the purer with the other half. IN FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. IV. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1826. Ubi animus requievit, et mihi reliquam ætatem a Republica procul habendam decrevi, non fuit consilium socordia atque desidia bonum otium conterere. CONTENTS Conquests of Justinian in the West.-Character and first Cam- paigns of Belisarius. He invades and subdues the Vandal Kingdom of Africa.-His Triumph.-The Gothic War.-He recovers Sicily, Naples, and Rome.-Siege of Rome by the 533 Justinian resolves to invade Africa 523-530. State of the Vandals. Hilderic Character and choice of Belisarius 529-532. His services in the Persian war 533 Preparations for the African war Belisarius lands on the coast of Africa Defeats the Vandals in a first battle Final defeat of Gelimer and the Vandals |