HUNILA
Was a noble Gothic woman, taken in battle by the Romans, and given in marriage to Bonosus, an officer of that people, who afterwards, by an act of usurpation, became for a time Emperor of Gaul, Spain, and Britain; being, however, eventually defeated by the forces sent against him, he hanged himself to avoid falling into the bands of the conqueror, Probus, by whom not only was the life of Honila spared, but on account of her virtue and beauty, an annual pendon from the imperial coffers was settled upon her, and the eons she had borne to Bonosus were suffered to enjoy their patrimonial estate.