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Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
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8 Horum anno imperii tertio Gratianus Valentiniani filius imperator est factus. eodem anno apud Atrebatas uera lana de nubibus pluuiae mixta defluxit.
9 Praeterea Athanaricus rex Gothorum Christianos in gente sua crudelissime persecutus, plurimos barbarorum ob fidem interfectos ad coronam martyrii sublimauit, quorum tamen plurimi in Romanum solum non trepidi, uelut ad hostes, sed certi, quia ad fratres, pro Christi confessione fugerunt.
10 Valentinianus Saxones, gentem in oceani litoribus et paludibus inuiis sitam, uirtute atque agilitate terribilem, periculosam Romanis finibus eruptionem magna mole meditantes in ipsis Francorum finibus oppressit. 11 Burgundionum quoque nouorum hostium nouum nomen, qui plus quam octoginta milia, ut ferunt, armatorum ripae Rheni fluminis insederunt. 12 Hos quondam subacta interiore Germania a Druso et Tiberio, adoptiuis filiis Caesaris, per castra dispositos in magnam coaluisse gentem atque ita etiam nomen ex opere praesumpsisse, quia crebra per limitem habitacula constituta burgos uulgo uocant, eorumque esse praeualidam et perniciosam manum Galliae hodieque testes sunt, in quibus praesumpta possessione consistunt; 13 quamuis prouidentia Dei Christiani omnes modo facti catholica fide nostrisque clericis, quibus oboedirent, receptis blande mansuete innocenterque uiuant, non quasi cum subiectis Gallis sed uere cum fratribus Christianis.
14 Anno autem undecimo imperii sui Valentinianus, cum Sarmatae sese per Pannonias diffudissent easque uastarent, bellum in eos parans apud Brigitionem oppidum subita effusione sanguinis, quod Graece apoplexis uocatur, suffocatus et mortuus est. |
| Translation |
8. In the third year of their rule, Gratian, Valentinian’s son, was made
emperor. In the same year, real wool mixed in with the rain fell from the
clouds among the Atrebates.
9. At this time, the king of the Goths, Athanaric, cruelly persecuted the
Christians among his people and raised many barbarians killed for the faith
to a martyr’s crown. However, very many more fled, because they confessed
Christ, to Roman soil. They did not come trembling, as if to enemies, but
with confidence because they were coming to their brothers.
10. Valentinian crushed the Saxons, a race that lives by the Ocean’s
shores and impenetrable marshland and which causes terror because of its
courage and mobility, in the lands of the Franks when they were plotting to
make a dangerous incursion in large numbers into Roman territory. 11. Meanwhile, the Burgundians, a new name for a new enemy and numbering
over 80,000 it is said, settled on the bank of the Rhine. 12. This tribe
was scattered into camps when the interior of Germany was subjugated
by Caesar’s adopted sons, Drusus and Tiberius. They then coalesced as
a great people and even took their name from this process since they set
up many small settlements along their frontier that are commonly called
‘burgs’. They are a powerful and dangerous group, as the Gallic provinces,
of which they have assumed ownership and where they have settled, bear
witness to this day. 13. However, through the providence of the Christian
God, they have recently all become Catholics, received priests from us whom
they obey, and live peacefully, calmly, and causing no harm with the Gauls,
looking on them not as their subjects, but truly as brother Christians.
14. In the eleventh year of his reign, while Valentinian was preparing
war against the Sarmatians who had poured into the Pannonian provinces
and laid waste to them, he was overcome in the town of Brigitio by a sudden
effusion of blood, which the Greeks call apoplexy, and died. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 7, Cap. 32, 8-14 (Vol. III, pp. 86-7, trans. Fear, pp. 378-9) |
| Temporal Coverage |
367 - 375 |
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