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32 1. the western empire, 425,76<br />

previously been its subordinate satellites. Now they became its masters.<br />

And Roman landowning élites had, in the end, no choice but to make their<br />

accommodations with the immigrants, or lose the very lands on which their<br />

élite status was based. The end <strong>of</strong> the empire was thus not the result <strong>of</strong> free<br />

choice. In making their way to the courts <strong>of</strong> barbarian kings, Roman élites<br />

(at least in the inner core <strong>of</strong> empire) were merely struggling to ensure that<br />

political revolution should not be accompanied by social and economic<br />

cataclysm.<br />

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