Constantinople itself was saved by the troops of and protected by the intervention of prefect , who organized the reconstruction of the walls that had been previously damaged by earthquakes and, in some places, to construct a new line of fortification in front of the old.
For in a dream some god stood at the side of Marcian, Emperor of the East, while he was disquieted about his fierce foe, and showed him the bow of Attila broken in that same night, as if to intimate that the race of Huns owed much to that weapon.
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While the Romans discussed the bishop's fate, he slipped away secretly to the Huns and betrayed the city to them.