01-10-2007, 01:04 PM
Quote:Or, it shows a story the emperor likes to tell: "Look, we got those barbarians to fall in battle for us, no Roman blood needed to be spilt" in the Tacitean Mons Graupius manner. :wink:
The very interesting thing is that when Theodosius does that with his Gothic federates at the river Frigidus in 394 AD, the Goths are very angry (because they remain federates) and even Roman writers chide Theodosius for not being very nice.
O tempora, o mores…
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)