I'm Patrick Weiman and this is the Fall of Rome.

Finding some 60 years after the vandals had first entered North Africa, the historian Victor

Avita offered the following description of their initial invasion.

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Finding a province which was at peace and enjoying quiet, the whole land beautiful and flowering

on all sides, they set to work on it with their wicked forces, laying it waste by devastation

and bringing everything to ruin with fires and murders.

They did not even spare the fruit bearing orchards, in case people who had hidden in the

caves of the mountains or steep places or any remote areas would be able to eat the

foods produced by them after they had passed.

So it was that no place remained safe from being contaminated by them as they raged with

great cruelty, unchanging and relentless.

Victor goes on to describe a litany of wanton destruction, of torture and rape, pillage

and plunder, a cavalcade of horrors that vandals visited on the Romans of North Africa.

The worst of it, according to Victor, went to the clergy.

The invading barbarians were adherents of the Aryan sect of Christianity, a branch with

a few differences of belief from the standard nicene variant supported by the emperors, the

Pope and the established church.

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Some had their mouths forced open with poles and stakes, and disgusting filth was put in their

jaws so that they would tell the truth about their money.

They tortured others by twisting cords around their foreheads and shins until they snapped,

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