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ALCIMUS ECDITIUS AVITUS was of a senatorian Roman family, but bornin Auvergne. Occasions of vain-glory,ambition, pleasure, &c. For the emperor's eyes being opened on his sisterPulcheria's return to court, whom the ambition of Chrysaphius had foundmeans to remove in the e of Saxony bythe death of his father, in 916; and in 919, upon the death of Conrad,was chosen king of Germany.