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The history of the Germans First book the Barbaric period
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 Excerpt: ...from his connexion with Rome: he reminded him of the injuries which the Romans had so lately inflicted upon him; of the attacks he had so recently repelled; and suggested that a cordial alliance between the Huns and the Goths would render the conquest of the whole empire and the equal partition of the provinces among the conquerors an enterprise of easy execution and certain success.6' But the arts of Attila served but to stimulate the vigilance of his but his artiopponents, and to draw still closer the bonds of that alliance which tote he was most anxious to dissolve. Theoderich and Aetius vied with each 'hTMlytht TMTM other in extending their alliances with the barbaric nations in Gaul, and other, in completing their preparations for the great conflict which awaited them. The Gothic king called out every man in his dominions capable Theoderich of bearing arms; the people obeyed his summons with alacrity; and "hoiTarrty of when collected in martial array, both prince and people surveyed their his kingdom. assembled powers with pride and confidence. Aetius meanwhile fully impressed with the importance, both to his own influence in the councils of the confederates and to the credit of the state he upheld, of appearing in the field with a force neither inferior in number nor bravery to those of his allies, swelled the Roman army by auxiliaries derived from the Aetius enlists Salian and Ripuarian Franks:80 he enlisted Sarmatian Alani, Li-£rnk" 58 Prkcus, p. 40. identity of the Riparii and Riparioli of Jornan Htitor. Miscell. ap. Murat. torn. i. p. 100; des (c. 36. p. 664.) and the Franci Ripuarii of Jornand. c. 36, pp. 664, 665. the later writers. This however is the first his 60 There is no risk in pronouncing for the torical mention of them. T...

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