Peter Heather
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Appearances Over Time
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It's sacked, yes.
Yes, the last time with some Celts in 300 BC, 200 BC, something like that.
I'm a medievalist.
Yeah, of course, of course.
And things get worse?
They get worse, but they get better first.
They get better in the sense that Alaric was trying to sack Rome to get a deal.
He's sitting outside Rome for 18 months.
He could have sacked at any point, but he's trying to use it as a bargaining counter to get a deal out of the Western Empire.
They won't do a deal with him.
The Western Empire is the army groups of northern Italy.
The army is still there, or the main central striking force is still there.
And the flow of revenues that keeps it in being, at least some of it, is still there.
We're getting lots of revenue from North Africa.
Sicily is good.
The Western Balkans, so Croatia is very nice.
Lots of money come from there.
Okay, so the organs are still functioning.
Yes, they are.