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Flavius Aëtius or simply Aetius, (c. 396–454), was a Roman general of the closing period of the Western Roman Empire. Along with his rival Count Boniface, he has often been called "the last of the Romans". His victory over Attila the Hun at the Battle of Chalons guarantees him, as Edward Gibbon states, immortality as "the man universally celebrated as the terror of Barbarians and the support of the Republic" of Rome.