king of the Vandals, was the most formidable of the Gothic invaders of the Roman empire. In 429 A.D. he became king of the Vandal settlers in Spain, and in that same year crossed over into Africa, where he subjugated the Roman provinces of the north, and committed the most frightful devastations. His next exploit was to fit out a fleet, in which he sailed to Ostia, whence he marched to Rome, which he stormed, and gave up to his soldiers to be pillaged during fourteen days (A.D. 455). Two attempts were made by the Romans to avenge themselves on the barbarians; the first by Majorian, emperor of the west, in 457; the second by Leo, emperor of the east, in 468. Both of these attempts, however, signally failed. Genseric spent the remainder of his life in consolidating his conquests, and died at a great age in 477. He was cruel to bloodthirstiness, cunning, unscrupulous, and grasping; but he possessed great military talents, and his manner of Gentian life was austere. Though the effect of his victories was neutralized by the subsequent successes of Belisarius, his name long remained the glory of the Vandal tribes. (Comp. Procopius' De Bell. Vandal.; Gibbon's Decline and Fall, chap. 33-36.)