* Note: Compare Sir W.Gell.Rome and its Vicinity vol.ii p.

134 .-- M.] [Footnote 91: For the elevation of Attalus, consult Zosimus, l.vi.

p.
377-380, Sozomen, l.ix.c.8, 9, Olympiodor.ap.Phot.p.180, 181, Philostorg.l.xii.c.3, and Godefroy's Dissertat.p.

470.] The gates of the city were thrown open, and the new emperor of the Romans, encompassed on every side by the Gothic arms, was conducted, in tumultuous procession, to the palace of Augustus and Trajan.

After he had distributed the civil and military dignities among his favorites and followers, Attalus convened an assembly of the senate; before whom, in a format and florid speech, he asserted his resolution of restoring the majesty of the republic, and of uniting to the empire the provinces of Egypt and the East, which had once acknowledged the sovereignty of Rome.
Such extravagant promises inspired every reasonable citizen with a just contempt for the character of an unwarlike usurper, whose elevation was the deepest and most ignominious wound which the republic had yet sustained from the insolence of the Barbarians.