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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 2, 20. Of Duke Victorius
Euric, king of the Goths, set Victorius as duke over the seven cities in the fourteenth year of his reign.1 Victorius went forthwith to Clermont and sought to win over the city. From his time date the subterranean chapels, which survive to this day. He ordered to be brought to the church of the holy Julian the columns which still stand in the church. He also ordered the building of the church of the holy Laurence and the church of the holy Germanus in the township of Ligne. He remained nine years in Auvergne. He poured out calumnies against Eucherius the senatorial; first he imprisoned him, then had him dragged forth by night, and bound against an ancient wall which he ordered to be thrown down upon him. He was licentious in his passion for women; and in dread of being slain by the Arvernians, he fled to Rome. But there, attempting the same debaucheries, he was stoned. After his death, Euric ruled for four years, but died in the twenty-seventh year of his reign. There again occurred a great earthquake.
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- A. D. 479.