Stelle Nam gens ista mirum in modum in ea ...; (De origine actibusque Getarum (Getica) (550 - 555), 16.89 (p. 80)) [2136]

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Text De origine actibusque Getarum (Getica) (550 - 555) Jordanes
Quotation Nam gens ista mirum in modum in ea parte, qua versabatur, id est Ponti in litore Scythiae soli, enituit, sine dubio tanta spatia tenens terrarum, tot sinos maris, tot fluminum cursus, sub cuius saepe dextera Vandalus iacuit, stetit sub praetio Marcomannus, Quadorum principes in servitute redacti sunt. Philippo namque ante dicto regnante Romanis, qui solus ante Constantinum Christianus cum Philippo idem filio fuit, cuius et secundo anno regni Roma millesimum annum explevit, Gothi, ut adsolet, subtracta sibi stipendia sua aegre ferentes, de amicis effecti sunt inimici. Nam quamvis remoti sub regibus viverent suis, rei publicae tamen Romane foederati erant, et annua munera percipiebant.
Translation p. 264-265: For this people flourished in a remarkable way in the region where it dwelt, that is, on the banks of the Pontus on Scythian soil. It held undisputed such an expanse of land, so many coasts, and so many rivers, that the Vandal was often subdued under its sway, the Marcoman endured to pay tribute, and the princes of the Quadi were reduced to slavery. When Philip, mentioned above, was ruling the Romans – who, alongside his son Philip, was the only emperor before Constantine to be a Christian and in whose second year the Roman empire reached its thousanth year – the stipends of the Goths were, as usual, withheld, they took this badly, and turned from friends to enemies. For although they lived far away under their own kings, they were federates of the Roman state and received annual gifts.
Summary History of the Goths at the time of Emperor Philip the Arab.
Quotation source 16.89 (p. 80)
Temporal Coverage 244 - 249
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