Book val2
12.57
Now Theodoric had sent Faustus Niger as an envoy to Zeno. But when the news of the latter’s death came, before the envoy returned, but after Theodoric had entered Ravenna and killed Odoacar, the Goths, without waiting for the command of the new emperor, made Theodoric their king.
12.58
For he was a most brave and warlike man, whose father, Walamir, was called King of the Goths; but Theodoric was his natural son; his mother was called in Gothic Ereriliva,Jordanes calls her Erelieva. With Gothica sc. lingua. but being a Catholic received at her baptism the name Eusebia.
12.59
Hence Theodoric was a man of great distinction and of good-will towards all men, and he ruled for thirty-three years. In his times Italy for thirty years enjoyed such good fortune that his successors also inherited peace.
