"River Adige" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from the difficulty of feeding and housing the women and children of his people, if not wholly removed was greatly lightened. Odovacar took up a strong position near Verona, separated from that city by the river Adige. Theodoric, though not well provided with warlike appliances,[54] rightly judged that it was of supreme importance to his cause to follow up with rapidity the blow struck on the banks of the Isonzo, and accordingly, towards the end of ...
— Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation • Thomas Hodgkin |
