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Ammianus Marcellinus
Roman History
Roman History - Book XXXI.





I. Omens announcing the death of the Emperor Valens, and a disaster to be inflicted by the Gauls.
II. A description of the abodes and customs of the Huns, the Alani, and other tribes, natives of Asiatic Scythia.
III. The Huns, either by arms or by treaties, unite the Alani on the Don to themselves; invade the Goths, and drive them from their country.
IV. The...Thuringians...are conducted by the Romans into Thrace...The Gruthungi also, who form the other division of the Goths, secretly cross the Danube by a bridge of boats.
V. The Thuringians being in great distress from hunger and the want of supplies, under the command of their generals Alavivus and Fritigern, revolt from Valens, and defeat Lupicinus and his army.
VI. Why Sueridus and Colias, nobles of the Gothic nation, after having been received in a friendly manner, revolted; and after slaying the people of Hadrianopolis, united themselves to Fritigern, and then turned to ravage Thrace.
VII. Profuturus, Trajan, and Richomeres fought a drawn battle against the Goths.
VIII. The Goths...invaded Thrace, plundering, massacring, ravishing, and burning, and slay Barzimeres, the tribune of the Scutarii.
IX. Frigeridus, Gratian's general, routs Farnobius at the head of a large body of Goths and Taifalae; sparing the rest, and giving them some lands around the Po.
X. The Lentiensian Alemanni are defeated in battle by the generals of the emperor Gratian, and their king Priamis is slain. Afterwards,...they are allowed to return to their own country.
XI. Sebastian surprises the Goths at Beraea...and defeats them with great slaughter; a few saved themselves by flight. Gratian hastens to his uncle Valens, to carry him aid against the Goths.
XII. Valens, before the arrival of Gratian resolves to fight the Goths.
XIII. All the Goths unite together...encounter the Romans in a pitched battle,...they defeat them with enormous loss, and put them to flight. Valens is slain...
XIV. The virtues and vices of Valens.
XV. The victorious Goths besiege Hadrianopolis...without success, they at last retire.
XVI. The Goths,...make an attack upon Constantinople without success. The device by which Julius, the commander of the forces beyond Mount Taurus, delivered the eastern provinces from the Goths.
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