| Keywords |
- Ethnonym: Alamanni, [wurzel: Alamann]
- Region: Gallia, [wurzel: Galli]
- Ethnonym: Gothi, [wurzel: Goth]
- Ethnonym: Huni, [wurzel: hun]
- Ethnonym: Romani, [wurzel: roman]
- Region: Thracia, [wurzel: Thraci]
- Keyword: barbari, [wurzel: barbar]
- Keyword: ecclesia, [wurzel: ecclesi]
- Keyword: gens, [wurzel: gent]
- Keyword: imperium, [wurzel: imperi]
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| ID |
1005 |
| Text |
Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
| Quotation |
8 Gratianus interea imperator admodum iuuenis cum inaestimabilem multitudinem hostium Romanis infusam finibus cerneret, fretus Christi potentia, longe inpari militum numero sese in hostem dedit et continuo apud Argentariam, oppidum Galliarum, formidulosissimum bellum incredibili felicitate confecit. nam plus quam triginta milia Alamannorum minimo Romanorum detrimento in eo proelio interfecta narrantur.
9 Tertio decimo autem anno imperii Valentis, hoc est paruo tempore postea quam Valens per totum
Orientem ecclesiarum lacerationes sanctorumque caedes egerat, radix illa miseriarum nostrarum
copiosissimas simul frutices germinauit.
10 Siquidem gens Hunorum, diu inaccessis seclusa montibus, repentina rabie percita exarsit in
Gothos, eosque passim conturbatos ab antiquis sedibus expulit. Gothi transito Danuuio fugientes, a Valente sine ulla foederis pactione suscepti, ne arma quidem, quo tutius barbaris crederetur, tradidere Romanis.
11 Deinde propter intolerabilem auaritiam Maximi ducis fame et iniuriis adacti in arma surgentes, uicto Valentis exercitu per Thraciam sese, miscentes simul omnia caedibus incendiis rapinisque, fuderunt. |
| Translation |
8. Meanwhile, the emperor Gratian, who was still a youth, on seeing an
innumerable host of enemies pouring round Rome’s borders, relying on the
power of Christ, engaged the enemy, though he had far fewer troops than
them, and with astounding good fortune won a terrible battle near Argentaria,
a town in the Gallic provinces. For it is said that more than 30,000
Alamanni were killed in that battle with minimal losses to the Romans.
9 In the thirteenth year of the reign of Valens, that is, in the short interval of time that followed the wrecking of the churches by Valens and his slaughtering of the saints throughout the East, that root of our miseries simultaneously sent up a very great number of shoots.
10 The race of Huns, long shut off by inaccessible mountains, broke out in sudden rage against the Goths and drove them in widespread confusion from their old homes. The Goths fled across the Danube and were received by Valens without negotiating any treaty. They did not even surrender their arms to the Romans, an act which might have made it safer to trust the barbarians.
11. After this, because of the intolerable greed of Duke Maximus,364
their hunger and the insults they suffered forced them to rise in arms. They
defeated Valens’ army, and poured into Thrace, enveloping everything with
murder, arson, and pillage. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 7, Cap. 33, 8-11 (Vol. III, pp. 89-90, trans. Fear, pp. 382-3) |
| Temporal Coverage |
376 - 377 |
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