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111Charlemagne — (742 814) The greatest king of the Middle Ages, Charlemagne forged a powerful empire during his long reign from 768 to 814 and left an indelible mark on his age and the generations to come. The son of Pippin the Short, the first Carolingian… …
112Fritigern — (fourth century) Leader of the Gothic Tervingi (r. 376 380) and rival of Athanaric, Fritigern is best known as the commander of the Gothic armies that destroyed the Roman army led by the emperor Valens at the Battle of Hadrianople in 378. His… …
113Odovacar — (c. 433 493) Germanic warrior of the Scirian tribe who rebelled against the last western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, and Romulus s father, the master of the soldiers, Orestes. Odovacar deposed Romulus and is thus traditionally said to… …
114Orestes — (d. 476) Roman military commander and father of Romulus Augustulus, who is traditionally recognized as the last western Roman emperor. Orestes, whose son was still a boy when he was promoted to the imperial dignity, was the real power behind… …
115barbaric — adj 1. primitive, rude, wild, uncivilized. See barbarian (def.1). 2. ferocious, fierce, savage, ruthless, vicious, fell, truculent; untamed, wild, undomesticated, unbroken; feral, ferine, wolfish, lupine, beastly, bestial, Obs. belluine; brutal,… …
116brutal — adj 1. pitiless, merciless, heartless, unkind, inhumane; unfeeling, uncompassionate, unsympathetic; cruel, hard hearted, stony hearted, marble hearted, cold blooded; cold, callous, insensitive, hardened, obdurate. 2. inhuman, barbarous, barbaric …
117fell — 1.v cut down, hew, mow, level, raze, demolish; shoot, wound, strike down, prostrate; overthrow, kill. adj 1. fierce, savage, ferocious, vicious, truculent; bestial, brutish, feral, ferine, tigerish, wolfish, lupine; brutal, violent, inhuman,… …
118ferocious — adj 1. bestial, brutish, beastly, beastlike, Obs. belluine, feral, ferine; untamed, wild, undomesticated, unbroken; predatory, predacious, raptorial; rapacious, ravenous, ravening. 2. fierce, savage, vicious, fell, truculent; tigerish, wolfish,… …
119fiendish — adj 1. inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, savage, Tartarian, Hunnish, Vandalic; brutal, brutish, murderous, slaughterous, bloodthirsty, sanguinary, sadistic, ogreish; terrible, harsh, fell, truculent; ferocious, ruthless, vicious, feral, ferine;… …
120fierce — adj 1. wild, savage, ferocious, vicious, fell, truculent; brutish, feral, ferine, tigerish, wolfish, lupine; brutal, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, hellish, Tartarian, Hunnish, Gothic, Vandalic; murderous, homicidal, slaughterous, bloodthirsty,… …
