and bracelets; or even (as in the case of Fravitta and Priulf)
stabbed his enemy with impunity at the imperial table; that [Greek
text which cannot be reproduced], to disturb the Goths, was a deadly
offence throughout the Empire: all these things did not prevent a
thousand new statues from rising in honour of the great Caesar, and
excited nothing more than grumblings of impotent jealousy from a
people whose maxim had become, 'Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow
we die.'

Three anecdotes will illustrate sufficiently the policy of Theodosius
toward his inconvenient guests. Towards the beginning of his reign,
when the Goths, after the death of the great Fridigern, were broken
up, and quarreling among themselves, he tempted a royal Amal, Modar
by name, by the title of Master-General, to attack and slaughter in
their sleep a rival tribe of Goths, and carry off an immense spoil to
the imperial camp. To destroy the German by the German was so old a
method of the Roman policy, that it was not considered derogatory to
the 'greatness' of Theodosius.

The old Athanaric, the Therving--he who had sworn never to set foot
on Roman soil, and had burnt them who would not fall down and worship
before Woden's waggon, came over the Danube, out of the forests of
'Caucaland,' and put himself at the head of the Goths. The great
Caesar trembled before the heathen hero; and they made peace
together; and old Athanaric went to him at Constantinople, and they
became as friends. And the Romani nominis umbra, the glamour of the
Roman name, fell on the old man, too feeble now to fight; and as he
looked, says Jornandes, on the site of the city, and on the fleets of
ships, and the world-famous walls, and the people from all the
nations upon earth, he said, 'Now I behold what I have often heard