On Buildings

The text provided is a continuation from the previous page, detailing the collapse of Roman authority in Africa and the internal rivalry between Roman generals.

...and at the same time Gaul, but also the western Liby- original: "Λιβύην" — and he himself perished... In this way, the disaster in Libya came to pass.

The Western land, as it is called by the Africans, he was not able to recover; but in addition to these, he lost all of the Western Libya, which is called that of the Africans, in the fifteenth year of his reign, due to the following cause: there were two Roman generals, Aetius and Bonifatius, who were as strong as possible and experienced in many wars, no less than any others of that time.

These two men were different in their political views, but they had arrived at such a degree of magnanimity and other virtue that if one were to call either of them the last of the Romans, he would not be mistaken... Bonifatius, the other of these two, was appointed by Placidia as general of all Libya. This was not according to the desire of Aetius, and he expressed his disapproval... When Bonifatius was out of the way, he slandered him to the court...

The OCR text here is fragmented and repetitive, mirroring a summary of the conflict between the generals Aetius and Bonifatius, and their rivalry which led to the loss of African territories.