Babcock studies this event in his Solving the Murder of Attila the Hun. Jordanes The Origins and Deeds of the Goths, translated by Charles C. But above all he declared and avowed with threats that he would bring worse things upon Italy, unless they sent him Honoria, the sister of the Emperor Valentinian and daughter of Augusta Placidia, with her due share of the royal wealth." Then Attila quickly put aside his usual fury, turned back on the way he had advanced from beyond the Danube and departed with the promise of peace. Pope Leo himself came to meet him in the Ambuleian district of the Veneti at the well-travelled ford of the river Mincius.
(223) Therefore while Attila's spirit was wavering in doubt between going and not going, and he still lingered to ponder the matter, an embassy came to him from Rome to seek peace. They distrusted the good fortune of their own king, inasmuch as Alaric did not live long after the sack of Rome, but straightway departed this life. But his followers, as the historian Priscus relates, took him away, not out of regard for the city to which they were hostile, but because they remembered the case of Alaric, the former king of the Visigoths.
" Attila's mind had been bent on going to Rome. Jordanes, the Gothic historian, relates that Attila was indecisive when the pope approached him to seek peace. Another mystery surrounds the reason Attila turned back on his plan to sack Rome in 452, after conferring with Pope Leo. There is more mystery about Attila the Hun than just the one about how he died. Courtesy of Wikipedia.Ī painting of the meeting between Attila the Hun and Pope Leo. Raphael's "The Meeting between Leo the Great and Attila".
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