Odoacer

How To Use Odoacer In A Sentence

• In 476 AD, the last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus was dethroned by the German general Odoacer, ending the Western Empire. Philip Giraldi: Neocon Ancient History
• He convinces Odoacer, with a faked omen, that Rom is worth much more alive than dead to the great consternation of Wolfila, and Odoacer agrees. Archive 2009-06-01
• He had himself proclaimed king at Ravenna in 494 after taking back Italy from Odoacer.
• Although still nominally subject to the eastern empire, Odoacer as a result became the supreme authority in Italy.
• Half the population here have names as unchristian quite – Norma, Odoacer, Archimedes – my housemaid is called Themis – but Dionea seemed to scandalize every one, perhaps because these good folk had a mysterious instinct that the name is derived from Dione, one of the loves of Father Zeus, and mother of no less a lady than the goddess Venus. Archive 2009-11-01
• It was said, for instance, that Kingsley ought not to have called Odoacer and Theodoric, Kings of Italy, as they were only lieutenants of the Roman and the Teuton
• Cassiodorus, however, tells us that Odoacer assumed the name of king (nomen regis Odoacer assumpsit), and though Gibbon points out that this may only mean that he assumed the abstract title of a king, without applying it to any particular nation or country, yet that great historian himself calls Odoacer, King of Italy, and shows how he was determined to abolish the useless and expensive office of vicegerent of the emperor. Roman and the Teuton
• In 460 AD, the Goths leaded by Odoacer invade Rome; kill the parents of the Caesar Romulus Augustus and send the boy and his tutor Ambrosinus to a prison in Capri. The Last Legion (2007) | Happy Share
• In Italy, Odoacer's assumption of control and deposition of the 16-year-old emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476 was simply one of a succession of political coups and interregna.
• In return, Odoacer exiles the two of them to Capri. Archive 2009-06-01