Book val2
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But He who does not allow his faithful worshippers to be oppressed by unbelievers soon brought upon Theodoric the same punishment that Arius, the founder of his religion, had suffered; for the king was seized with a diarrhea, and after three days of open bowels lost both his throne and his life on the very same day on which he rejoiced to attack the churches.A.D. 526.
16.96
But before breathing his last he named his grandson Athalaric as his successor. During his lifetime he had made himself a mausoleumThis is still in existence at Ravenna, although stripped of its external decorations. of squared blocks of stone, a work of extraordinary size, and sought out a huge rock to place upon it.
