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stilicho, flavius

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Stil·i·cho   (stĭl'ĭ-kō')   
Roman general who defended the Western Empire from the invading Goths and Vandals.
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Stilicho, Flavius

regent (394-408) for the Roman emperor Honorius and one of the last great Roman military commanders in the West. He fought in several campaigns against the barbarians, opposing the invading Visigoths under Alaric in the Balkans and Italy and repelling an Ostrogothic invasion of Italy in 406.

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