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375–420
Paulus Orosius (c. 375/385 – 420 AD) less often Paul Orosius in English, was a Roman priest, historian and theologian, and a student of Augustine of Hippo.
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The army of the consul was so small that Bituitus boasted that the small number of the Romans would scarcely suffice to feed the dogs that were with his army.
At that time, too, the law, that no woman should have more than a half ounce of gold, or should wear a colored garment or use a carriage anywhere in the City, which had been proposed by Oppius, a tribune of the plebs, was repealed after being in force for twenty years.
Later in the spring, when Hannibal’s army was crossing over into Etruria and was high in the Apennines, it was overtaken by a storm, shut in fast, and so weighted down by the snow that it could not move. For two continuous days both he and his army remained numb from the cold. A great number of men, many beasts of burden, and almost all the elephants died there from exposure to the wintry blasts.