ATAULPHUS (the Latinized

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• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the

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• GOTHIC

Gothic Ataulf, "

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• FATHER

Father-

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• WOLF
• WOLF (Canis lupus)
• WOLF, FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1759-1824)
• WOLF, HUGO (1860-1903)
• WOLF, JOSEPH (1820-1899)

wolf," from

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• ATTA, TITUS QUINCTIUS

atta, father, and vulfs, wolf; mod. Germ. Adolf, Latinized as

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• ADOLPHUS, JOHN LEYCESTER (1795-1862)

Adolphus, the form used by

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• GIBBON
• GIBBON, EDWARD (1737–1794)

Gibbon for the subject of this

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• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article)  , king of the Goths (d . 415) On the death of Alaric (q.v.) his followers acclaimed his brother-in-law Ataulphus as king . In 412 he quitted Italy and led his army across the Alps into Gaul . Here he fought against some of the usurpers who threatened the throne of Honorius; he made some sort of compact with that emperor and, in 414, he married his sister Placidia; who had been since the siege of Rome a captive in the camp of the Goths . The ex-emperor Attains danced at the marriage festival, which was celebrated with great pomp at Narbonne . In 415 Ataulphus crossed the Pyrenees into Spain and died at Barcelona, being assassinated by a groom . The most, important fact in his history is his confession, recorded by Orosius, that he saw the inability of his countrymen to rear a civilized or abiding kingdom, and that consequently his aim should be to build on Roman foundations and blend the two nations into one .