d perish, if
they were deprived of his protection; but the beasts of the forest,
his enemies or his victims, would multiply in the free and undisturbed
possession of their solitary domain. The various tribes that people the
air, or the waters, are still less connected with the fate of the human
species; and it is highly probable that the fish of the Danube would
have felt more terror and distress, from the approach of a voracious
pike, than from the hostile inroad of a Gothic army.

[Footnote 99: Observe with how much indifference Caesar relates, in the
Commentaries of the Gallic war, that he put to death the whole senate of
the Veneti, who had yielded to his mercy, (iii. 16;) that he labored
to extirpate the whole nation of the Eburones, (vi. 31;) that forty
thousand persons were massacred at Bourges by the just revenge of his
soldiers, who spared neither age nor sex, (vii. 27,) &c.]

[Footnote 100: Such are the accounts of the sack of Magdeburgh, by the
ecclesiastic and the fisherman, which Mr. Harte has transcribed, (Hist.
of Gustavus Adolphus, vol. i. p. 313--320,) with some apprehension of
violating the dignity of history.]

[Footnote 101: Et vastatis urbibus, hominibusque interfectis,
solitudinem et raritatem bestiarum quoque fieri, et volatilium,
pisciumque: testis Illyricum est, testis Thracia, testis in quo ortus
sum solum, (Pannonia;) ubi praeter coelum et terram, et crescentes
vepres, et condensa sylvarum cuncta perierunt. Tom. vii. p. 250, l, Cap.
Sophonias and tom. i. p. 26.]

Chapter XXVI: Progress of The Huns.--Part V.

Whatever may have been the just measure of the calamities of Europe,
there was reason to fear that the same calamities would soon extend
to the peaceful countries of Asia. The sons of the Goths had been
judiciously distributed through the cities of the East; and the arts of
education were employed to polish, and subdue, the native fierceness
of their temper. In the space of about twelve years, their numbers had
continually increased; and the children, who, in the first emigration,
were sent over the Hellespont, had attained, with rapid growth, the
strength and spirit of perfect manhood. [102] It was impossible to
conceal from their knowledge the events of the Gothic war; and, as
those daring youths had not studied the language of dissimulation, they
betrayed their wish, their desire, perhaps their intention, to emulate
the glorious example of their fathers The danger of the time