The "Scourge" first attacked, captured, and rased to the ground Aquileia.

He then scoured the whole country, sparing only those who preserved their lives by the surrender of their wealth.
It was to this invasion that VENICE owed its rise.

The inhabitants, who fled from the approach of the Huns, found on the islands in the lagoons at the head of the Adriatic a harbor of safety.
Attila died shortly after (453) from the bursting of a blood-vessel, and with his death the empire of the Huns ceased to exist.

The VANDALS, we have seen, had established themselves in Africa.

They were now ruled by GENSERIC.