<head>The Gothic King Cavarus</head>Cavarus, king of the Thracian Gauls, being naturally kingly and high-minded, afforded great security to traders sailing to the <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Pontus&groupId=910&placeId=1634">Pontus</a>, and rendered great services to the Byzantines in their wars with the Thracians and Bithynians.
This Cavarus, so excellent in other respects, was corrupted by the flatterer Sostratus a native of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Chalcedon&groupId=419&placeId=776">Chalcedon</a>. . . .
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