The following is a primary account written by St. Jerome, and his experience of the fall of Rome.

"Nations innumerable and most savage have invaded all Gaul. The Whole region between the Alps and the Pyrenees, the ocean and the Rhine, has been devastated by the Quadi, the Vandals, the Sarmati, the Alani, the Gepidae, the hostile Heruli, the Saxons, the Burgundians, the Alemanni, and the Pahnonians.

Oh wretched Empire! Mayence [Mainz, Germany], formerly so noble a city, has been taken and ruined, and in the church many thousands of men have been massacred. Worms [Germany] has been destroyed after a long siege. Rheims, that powerful city, Amiens, Arras, Speyer [Germany], Strasburg, - all have seen their citizens led away captive into Germany. Aquitaine and the provinces of Lyons and Narbonne, all save a few towns, have been depopulated; and these the sword threatens without, while hunger ravages within."

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Question 1 options:

The Roman soldiers were holding back the invading barbarians, even though they were heavily outnumbered.

The Roman borders were being overrun by numerous tribes, and the devastation was immense.

The Romans were losing in Germany, but holding back the invasion in Gaul.

The Roman cities were being spared, despite the barbarians conquering numerous Roman territories.

St. Jerome spoke of how the Roman borders had being breached on many sides such as in Gaul and Germany by numerous tribes such as the Vandals, the Quadi, the Sarmati and the Alani.

He then mentions the devastation that these invasions had caused such as the thousands of people massacred in churches and how citizens have been captured and towns depopulated.

ogorwyne ogorwyne · Answer 2 · 2021-11-11T13:44:07+01:00

From the account that St. Jerome has written about the fall of Rome we can conclude that the Roman borders were being overrun by numerous tribes, and the devastation was immense.

The second option is the answer to this question. From the words of the St. Jerome we can see that he laments the destruction that Rome is facing.

He referred to the empire as wretched and said that the church had been ruined while a lot of Roman citizens had been led captive into Germany.

He also talked about how the towns have become depopulated and the hunger that now lives in the land.

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