The Huns swept over Southern
Russia, then occupied by the Goths, the most civilized of the Teutonic
tribes. The Goths, finding themselves helpless against the active and
fierce marauders, moved onward in their turn. They crossed the Danube,
not as a raiding troop, but as an entire nation, and, half begging, half
demanding a place of refuge, they penetrated into the world of
civilization. With them came fearful stories of the Huns; but these
latter, sweeping off in another direction, failed for a while to follow
up the fugitives.

As for the Goths, after they had defeated and slain one emperor, they
were given lands and temporarily subdued by Theodosius the Great, the
last ruler to hold the entire Roman domain. In 395 Theodosius, dying,
divided his possessions, quite like a hereditary monarch, between his
two sons, both mere boys.[18] To the elder he gave Constantinople and
the East, to the younger Rome and the West. So instead of one kingdom
there were two. Partly through its own disorganization, partly from the
pressure of the barbarians, the Roman world had burst and fallen into
halves. These proved two very helpless and feeble halves in the hands of
their boy rulers; and the eager Teutons, finding themselves no longer
withheld, began that remarkable series of plundering invasions by which
they overwhelmed the ancient world.

[FOR THE NEXT SECTION OF THIS GENERAL SURVEY SEE VOLUME IV.]

FOOTNOTES:

[1] See _Destruction of Pompeii_, page 207.

[2] See _Germanicus in Germany_, page 1.

[3] See _Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem_, page 150.

[4] See _Jews' Last Struggle for Freedom_, page 222.

[5] See _The Crucifixion_, page 23.

[6] See _Rise and Spread of Christianity_, page 40.

[7] See _Burning of Rome under Nero_, page 108.

[8] See _Persecution of the Christians under Nero_, page 134.

[9] See _Martyrdom of Polycarp and Justin Martyr_, page 231.

[10] See _Persecutions of Christians in Gaul_, page 246.

[11] See _Beginning of Rome's Decline_, page 263.

[12] See _Eventful Reign of Sapor I, King of Persia_, page 277.

[13] See _Conversion of Constantine_, page 289.

[14] See _First Nicene Council_, page 297.

[15] See _Foundation of Constantinople_, page 320.

[16] See _Julian the Apostate_, page 333.

[17] See _The Huns and Their Western Migration_, page 352.

[18] See _Final Division of the Roman Empire_, page 364.

GERMANICUS IN GERMANY

A.D. 13-16

TACITUS

When the