The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain . asure had been deposited. But fightingwith stone walls requires more patience than thebarbarians had yet learned to exercise. When theirfirst assaults on the place were repulsed with heavyloss, they gave up the attempt in disgust, and aftertwo days marched away to besiege first attack was so violent that they had nearlysucceeded in forcing the gates, and perhaps if theirfury had continued unabated the imperial city wouldhave soon become their prey. But a band of Arabhorsemen in the Roman servic
The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain . asure had been deposited. But fightingwith stone walls requires more patience than thebarbarians had yet learned to exercise. When theirfirst assaults on the place were repulsed with heavyloss, they gave up the attempt in disgust, and aftertwo days marched away to besiege first attack was so violent that they had nearlysucceeded in forcing the gates, and perhaps if theirfury had continued unabated the imperial city wouldhave soon become their prey. But a band of Arabhorsemen in the Roman service issued from the city,and a sharp conflict took place. The skirmish wa«indecisive, but a panic was created among the Gothsby the sight of an act of cannibalism on the part ofone of the Arabs, who sucked the blood of his slainadversary. The thought of having to fight withenemies of such inhuman ferocity chilled their courage,and after continuing the siege half-heartedly for ashort time, they abandoned it as hopeless. Carryingaway a large quantity of plunder from the suburbs. COLUMN ERECTED AT CONSTANTINOPLE IN HONOUR OF THEGOTHIC CONQUESTS OF THEODOSIUS. 78 THE GOTHS AND THEODOSIUS. outside the city walls, they wandered away to thenorth, and spread themselves once more over theprovinces from the Black Sea to the Adriatic, whichhad so often before been the scene of their ravages. We do not know much about what the Goths mayhave done in Thrace and Illyria during the two yearsfollowing their great victory. The Roman writerscomplain bitterly of the havoc and devastation whichthey wrought, but they tell us no details. But surelythe worst deeds of the barbarians can scarcely haveequalled in cruelty and treachery the infamous actby which the civilized and Christian Romans revengedthemselves on innocent persons for the defeat atHadrianople. It will be remembered that on severaloccasions when treaties were made between the Gothsand the Romans, a number of the children of Gothicnobles w
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