The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . ains of ox-carts that followed with their wives and children. Over twomillion people, we are told, entered Italy in this great migration, driven fromtheir former homes by overcrowding, if not by actual star\ation. So for themthere could be no turning back. They must have food, and they were preparedto fight for it. They came like a swarm of locusts, or per
The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . ains of ox-carts that followed with their wives and children. Over twomillion people, we are told, entered Italy in this great migration, driven fromtheir former homes by overcrowding, if not by actual star\ation. So for themthere could be no turning back. They must have food, and they were preparedto fight for it. They came like a swarm of locusts, or perhaps more like someterrible, deadly plague. Where they passed the land was left like a desert be-hind them, stripped bare, blackened often with fire, the trees hung with the deadand mutilated bodies of men and horses, offered as a sacrifice to their savage gods. So the Romans thought of them only as fierce and dreadful robbers, and tellus of their grim faces, their blazing eyes, their helmets made of the furry headsand fangs of wolf and bear. Some of them wore the horned heads of oxen, be-neath which they must have looked scarce human, but more like that old Mino-taur, who, you remember, was slain by the Greek hero, Theseus. The Ger-. THE TEUTONES PASSING FROM ITALY INTO GAUL Germany—The Cimbri and Teutones 501 mans fought with long spears. They charged in a solid, wedge-shaped bodywith some giant chieftain to the fore. When thev started forward, ihey ham-mered their weapons on their shields and joined in a single ferocious shout,before which Roman courage oozed away like water. Army after army marched against the invafiers, only be defeated; and ifwe do not hear of any great loss of life in these battles, this only shows moreplainly the fright of the generally unconquerable Romans. They seem to haveregarded their legs as the only safe defence against these huge, wild giants ofthe North. You have already learned, in the Roman story, of the terror caused by thisinroad, and
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