Visigoth dominion, is more useful for the illustration of Gothic history as a whole, than one relating to the later and intrinsically more interesting epoch.

CONTENTS.

I.

WHO WERE THE GOTHS

Earliest notices of the Goths: Pytheas, Pliny, Tacitus, I-

Why the story is worth telling, 3-The people and its names,

5-Goths and Gepids, 7-Other kindred peoples, 8-What

the Goths looked like, 9-Their national characteristics, II-

Their manners and polity, 12-Gothic heathenism, 13-The

runes, 15-Goths and Getes, 19-Emigration from the Baltic

shores, 20.

II.

FROM THE BALTIC TO THE DANUBE.

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I-20

21-29

Why the Goths came southward, 21-Traditions of the wan-

dering, 23-Ostrogotha the Patient, 24-First conflict with the

Romans, 26-King Cniva's victory, 27-Ruin of a Roman

army, 28—The emperor purchases peace, 29.

III.

FIRE AND SWORD IN ASIA AND GREECE

30-37

Miseries of the empire, 30-Fifteen grievous years, 31-Plun-

der of Ephesus and Athens, 32-" Let the Greeks have their

books," 33-Claudius Gothicus, 34-Fifty years of peace, 37.

IV.

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HOW THE GOTHS FOUGHT WITH CONSTANTINE.

38-42

The Goths in Dacia, 38-The long peace broken, 39-Con-

stantine victorious, 41-Geberic and the Vandals, 42.

The empire of Ermanaric, 43-The Huns are coming, 45-The

tyrant's end, 46-The Ostrogoths enslaved, 47-The three

royal brothers, 48-Birth of Theoderic, 49.

VI.

THE JUDGES OF THE VISIGOTHS

50-55

The three kingdoms of the Visigoths, 50-Events at Con-

stantinople, 51-Weakness of Valens, 52-Athanaric quarrels

with the Romans, 53-A peace concluded, 54-The Visigoths

pressed by the Huns, 55.

Wulfila the bishop, 56-His birth and education, 57-"A

second Moses," 58-Arians and Catholics, 59-Wulfila's Gothic

Bible, 61-His death, 64.

VIII.

FRITHIGERN AND VALENS THE BATTLE OF

HADRIANOPLE

65-75

The Visigoths cross the Danube, 65-They are oppressed by

the Romans, 67-Patience of Frithigern, 68—A rebellion at

last, 69-Indignation against Valens, 70-The battle of Had-

rianople, 72—A sad day for Rome, 75.

Constantinople in danger, 76-Massacre of Gothic hostages,

78-Wise policy of Theodosius, 79—Athanaric at Constanti-

nople, 80-The Goths under Roman rule, 81-The Roman

army filled with Goths-Danger to the empire, 83.

ALARIC THE BALTHING

X.

84-98

Death of Theodosius; his unworthy successors, 84-Alaric

chosen king, 85-His campaigns in Greece, 86-The Visigoths

invade Italy, 87-They are defeated and retire, 88—Radagais

and his invasion, 89-Stilicho's bargain with Alaric, 91-

Roman treachery, 92--Alaric returns; Rome surrounded by

the Goths, 92-Alaric master of Italy, 95-Rome taken by

storm, 96-Alaric's death, 97-His funeral, 98.

XI.

KING ATAWULF AND HIS ROMAN QUEEN.

99-105

What had happened in the East, 99-Atawulf's plans of do-

minion, 100-The wedding at Narbonne, 101-Murder of

Atawulf, 103-What became of Placidia, 105.

XII.

THE KINGDOM OF TOULOUSE

106-125

The gift of Aquitaine, 106-Theoderic the Visigoth, 107—The

Huns invade Gaul, 111-The battle of Moirey, 113-The

second Theoderic, 114-The Vandals at Rome, 115—Rikimer

the emperor-maker, 116-Culmination of the Visigoth do-

minions, 117-Beginnings of decline, 119-Aggression of the

Franks, 121-The Hart's Ford, 123-The field of Voclad, 124

-The Visigoths driven from Gaul, 125.