CHAPTER XLIV. FROM THE DEATH OF CONSTANTINE, A.D. 337, TO ROMULUS AUGUSTULUS, A.D. 476. The three sons of Constantine 336 Constantius jealous of Julian 337 Julian becomes emperor 337 Attempts to restore Paganism 337 Valentinian 338 The Huns appear in Europe 338 The Goths cross the Danube 338 Theodosius the Great 339 Stilicho 339 Alaric enters Italy 340 Luxury of the Romans 340 Sack of Rome 341 Arcadius and Honorius 341 The Vandals 342 The Huns 342 Romulus Augustulus 343 Extinction of the Empire of the West 343 CHAPTER XLV. ROMAN LITERATURE UNDER THE EMPIRE. A.D. 14-476. Decline of letters 344 Epic poetry--Lucan 344 Silius Italicus 344 Claudian 345 Persius, Juvenal 345 Martial 346 History--Velleius Paterculus 346 Valerius Maximus 346 Tacitus 347 Quintus Curtius 347 Rhetoric--Seneca the elder 348 Quintilian 348 Appuleius 349 Philosophy--Seneca 349 The elder Pliny 349 His nephew 350 Grammarians--Macrobius 350 Marcellinus 350 Legal writers--Gains 350