10-09-2018, 08:00 PM
Claudian, De bello gothico, 422-432:
agmina quin etiam flavis obiecta Sygambris quaeque domant Chattos inmansuetosque Cheruscos, huc omnes vertere minas tutumque remotis excubiis Rhenum solo terrore relinquunt. ullane posteritas credet? Germania quondam illa ferox populis, quae vis instantibus olim
principibus tota poterat cum mole teneri, iam sese placidam praebet Stilichonis habenis, ut nec praesidiis nudato limite temptet expositum calcare solum nec transeat amnem, incustoditam metuens attingere ripam
My translation:
Even the armies that faced the Sygambres, and those that controlled Chatti and Cherusci, left the Rhine they controlled, which was defended only by one thing, the fear of Rome. Who could believe to this story? That Germany, once land of fierce people that previous emperors where only able to keep under control with the weight of the armies, now is so willing to follow Stilicho's hand and does not attempt any invasion of lands exposed by the withdraw of the armies and they do not cross the river, too much fearful to approach an undefended shore.
This has been written in the 402-403. In the 406, the undefended Rhine was broken down.
agmina quin etiam flavis obiecta Sygambris quaeque domant Chattos inmansuetosque Cheruscos, huc omnes vertere minas tutumque remotis excubiis Rhenum solo terrore relinquunt. ullane posteritas credet? Germania quondam illa ferox populis, quae vis instantibus olim
principibus tota poterat cum mole teneri, iam sese placidam praebet Stilichonis habenis, ut nec praesidiis nudato limite temptet expositum calcare solum nec transeat amnem, incustoditam metuens attingere ripam
My translation:
Even the armies that faced the Sygambres, and those that controlled Chatti and Cherusci, left the Rhine they controlled, which was defended only by one thing, the fear of Rome. Who could believe to this story? That Germany, once land of fierce people that previous emperors where only able to keep under control with the weight of the armies, now is so willing to follow Stilicho's hand and does not attempt any invasion of lands exposed by the withdraw of the armies and they do not cross the river, too much fearful to approach an undefended shore.
This has been written in the 402-403. In the 406, the undefended Rhine was broken down.
