Honorius in Roman Biography

Ho-no'ri-us, (Fi.avius,) a Roman emperor, the second son of Theodosius the Great, was born at Constantinople in 384 A.n. At the death of his father, in 395, he inherited the Western Empire, (his elder brother Arcadius having obtained the Eastern,) under the guardianship of Stilicho, a famous general, whose daughter he married. His court was held at Milan, and afterwards at Ravenna. About 402 Alaric the Goth invaded Italy, and was defeated by Stilicho at Pollentia. In 408 Stilicho was put to death by order of Honorius, who was a man of weak and vicious character. From this event may be dated the fall of the Roman power. Rome was taken and pillaged by Alaric in 410, and the empire went rapidly to ruin. He died, without issue, in 423, and was succeeded by Valentinian III. See Girbon, " History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire;" Sozomkn, " Historia Ecclesiastica;" Jornandes, "De Rebus Geticis ;" Tiixemont, "Histoire des Empereurs.