Alaric - 'Roman Officer'?

[Sean Manning]

And I mean specifically, the literature from the Principate, whether Roman or Second Sophistic or New Testament, is full of "these soldiers rob us and stamp on our feet with their hobnails; those troops from the frontier are really half barbarians; look at what the wicked usurper's soldiers did to that town." They are feeling towards the boundaries of what its not acceptable to say in public.