Edward Gibbon, an English historian, published The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. This is Chapter 34 of that work. He follows Rome from the prosperous age of Trajan and the Antonines, around the year 100, through the fall of the West and on to the Ottoman capture of Constantinople in 1453.

Chapter 34 takes up the character, conquests, and court of Attila, King of the Huns—Death of Theodosius the Younger—Elevation of Marcian to the Empire of the East. The footnotes are not in this reading; what you have is the narrative.