101. Jerom (tom. i. p. 121, ad Principiam [Ep. cxxvii. tom.
i. p. 953, ed. Vallars.]) has applied to the sack of Rome
all the strong expressions of Virgil:-
Quis cladem illius noctis, quis funera fando
Explicet, etc.
Procopius (1. i. c. 2 [tom. i. p. 316, ed. Bonn]) positively
affirms that great numbers were slain by the Goths.
Augustine (The City of God,1. i. c.12,13) offers Christian
comfort for the death of those whose ,bodies (multa corpora)
had remained (in tanta strage) unburied. Baronius, from the
different writings of the Fathers, has thrown some light on
the sack of Rome. Annal. Eccles. A.D. 410, No. 6-44.