It was just after his triumph over Basiliscus that Zeno received the ambassadors of Odoacer, and was saluted as Emperor of West and East alike, in spite of his advice to the Romans to take back as their Caesar their old ruler, Julius Nepos, who was still in possession of part of Dalmatia, though he had lost Italy three years before. Perhaps Zeno might have been tempted to interfere with something more than advice in the affairs of the West, if his second batch of troubles had not fallen upon him, in the form of his long Gothic war with the two Theodorics—the sons of Theodemir and Triarius—which began in the year following his restoration. THE EASTERN EMPERORS, 457-518, WITH THEIR FAMILIES. [Names of Emperors in Capitals.] _x_ | +------+------+ | | LEO I.,=Verina. Basiliscus, 457-474. | usurper, 475-477. | ANTHE- | MIUS, | Emperor of +--+----------------------------------+ the West, Rusumbladeotus | | 467-472. the Isaurian. | Flavius of | | | | Dyrrhachium. | | | | | | | +-----+-----+ | +-------+------+ | | | | | | | | | | Arcadia=ZENO,===Ariadne=ANASTASIUS I., | Leontia=Marcianus, | | 475- | 491-518. | rebel Longinus, | 491. | Caesaria=Secundinus. in 479. rebel in | | | 492. | | | | | | Zeno, LEO, +-----+-----+ d. 480. d. 474. | | Hypatius, Pomeius, rebels in 532.