🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 33

The sovereign pontiff Constantine threatened to depose and excommunicate him, unless he abrogated this licentious law; but Witiza set him at defiance, threatening, like his Gothic predecessor Alaric, to assail the eternal city with his troops, and make spoil of her accumulated treasures.

Who acts: sovereign pontiff, pontiff, Witiza, Alaric · What happens: threaten, depose, excommunicate, abrogate, set, assail · To what, where: Constantine, licentious law, defiance, Gothic predecessor, eternal city, spoil

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