. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. ci, and tlie Marcomanni, whom the legions were to fightin Germany, — were powerful bodies of men. The former liiidalready made the soldiers of Marius and Caesar tremble; the latterwere to destroy the legions of \arus. Tliid was the (if llic (liiwrv (if (iiir iiic(li»V!il eustoms, the iimlioniii^ lliuwife. The barbaric also called upon llir wife to sliaro coiKiiusts ; this was tlic cimiimin c-menl of coiiiiiiiiriity (I)u Vairo^t-r, /.ex Crllen, p. 17o). THE ALLIED OK TKIBUÏAR
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. ci, and tlie Marcomanni, whom the legions were to fightin Germany, — were powerful bodies of men. The former liiidalready made the soldiers of Marius and Caesar tremble; the latterwere to destroy the legions of \arus. Tliid was the (if llic (liiwrv (if (iiir iiic(li»V!il eustoms, the iimlioniii^ lliuwife. The barbaric also called upon llir wife to sliaro coiKiiusts ; this was tlic cimiimin c-menl of coiiiiiiiiriity (I)u Vairo^t-r, /.ex Crllen, p. 17o). THE ALLIED OK TKIBUÏARY COUNTRIES. 1^ Below the warriors were the litcs, who. without being slaves,were not free ; they were the remnants or descendants of con(]ueredtribes. They had wives and children ; they could ajjpear in a courtof justice : but they were not admitted to the public assembly,and they labored for the profit of those who had taken themunder their patronage (mundiwn). Tacitus relates that this rude and brutal society treated theslave with kindness, respected women, opened every house to the. GERMAN stranger, and guaranteed to the accused the judgment of his than one custom of feudal Europe was there contained ingerm. Those kings, for example, whom we find without power,but surrounded with religious respect, were afterwards to leavetheir forests and their obscurity to ascend the throne of Clovis ;and some of those chiefs to whom their companions gave themselvesfor life and death were the ancestors of feudal lords, who in turnowed their power to the devotion of their vassals.^ When these From the Antonine column. 2 I do not mean that the French nobles of the JMiddle Ages were descended from theGermans. After the invasions, the principle of Roman, Gallic, and German clientage, — namely,VOI-. IV. 2 18 THE TPIIUMVIEATES AND THE EEYOLUTIOX, 79 TO 30. fierce and formidable warriors, half-clad in skins of the aurochsor the bear, sang their wild songs there was no h
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