CHAPTER VII The elevation, and tyranny, of Maximin — Rebellion in Africa and Italy, under the authority of the Senate — Civil Wars and Seditions — Violent Deaths of Maximin and his Son, of Maximus and Balbinus, and of the three Gordians — Usurpation and Secular Games of Philip The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, published between 1776 and 1788 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6bflBfn5Rw

CHAPTER XLII State of the Barbaric World — Establishment of the Lombards on the Danube — Tribes and Inroads of the Sclavonians — Origin, Empire, and Embassies of the Turks — The Flight of the Avars — Chosroes I. or Nushirvan King of Persia — His prosperous Reign and Wars with the Romans — The Colchian or Lazic War — The Æthiopians ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSKKXb0aQf8