. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. ious provincials ; and when their subsistence had failed, the Ostro-goths embraced the familiar resources of war and rapine. It had been the wish of Theodoric (such at least was his declaration)to lead a peaceful, obscure, obedient life, on the confines of Scythia, tillthe Byzantine court, by splendid and fallacious promises, seduced him toattack a confederate tribe of Goths, who had been engaged in the party ofBasiliscus.
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. ious provincials ; and when their subsistence had failed, the Ostro-goths embraced the familiar resources of war and rapine. It had been the wish of Theodoric (such at least was his declaration)to lead a peaceful, obscure, obedient life, on the confines of Scythia, tillthe Byzantine court, by splendid and fallacious promises, seduced him toattack a confederate tribe of Goths, who had been engaged in the party ofBasiliscus. He marched from his station in Ma\sia, on the solemn assurancethat before he reached Hadrianopolis, he should meet a plentiful convoyof provisions, and a reinforcement of eight thousand horse and thirty thou-sand foot, while the legions of Asia were encamped at Heraclea to secondhis operations. These measures were disappointed by mutual jealousy. Ashe advanced into Thrace the son of Theodemir found an inhospitable soli-tude, and his Gothic followers, with a heavy train of horses, of mules, andof wagons, were betrayed by their guides among the rocks and precipices of. ^82 THE HISTORY OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE [476-488 ]Mount Sonclis, where he was assaulted by the arms and invectives of The-odoric the son of Triarius. From a neighbouring height, his artful rivalharangued the camp of the Walamirs, and branded their leader with theopprobrious names of child, of madman, of perjured traitor, the enemy ofhis blood and nation. Are you ignorant, exclaimed the son of Triarius, that it is the constant policy of the Romans to destroy the Goths by eachothers swords ? Are you insensible that the victor in this unnatural contestwill be exposed, and justly exposed, to their implacable revenge? Where are those warriors, my kinsmen, and thyown, whose widows now lament that theirlives were sacrificed to thy rash ambition?Where is the wealth which thy soldiers pos-sessed when they were first allur
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