. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. conduct appearedunreasonable as well as unsocial and unpatriotic. Hencethe term obstinacy which was applied to them, and thevehemence of the popular hatred of the new sect. But pestilence and persecution were both forgottenamidst the imperative calls for immediate help that nowcame from the north. The barbarians were pushing inthe Roman outposts, and pouring over the frontiers. Atribe known as the Marcomani even crossed the Alps andlaid siege to Aquileia. Not since the invasion of theCimbri and Teutones (par. 159) had the
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. conduct appearedunreasonable as well as unsocial and unpatriotic. Hencethe term obstinacy which was applied to them, and thevehemence of the popular hatred of the new sect. But pestilence and persecution were both forgottenamidst the imperative calls for immediate help that nowcame from the north. The barbarians were pushing inthe Roman outposts, and pouring over the frontiers. Atribe known as the Marcomani even crossed the Alps andlaid siege to Aquileia. Not since the invasion of theCimbri and Teutones (par. 159) had the inhabitants ofany city of Italy seen the barbarians before their gates. FROM TIBERIUS TO MARCUS AURELIUS. 367 To the panic of the plague was added this new placed himself at the head of his legions, andhurried beyond the Alps. For many years, amidst thesnows of winter and the heats of summer, he strove to beatback the assailants of the empire. Once the Roman army was completely surrounded, andthe soldiers were dying of thirst, when a violent thunder-. Roman Soldiers attacking a German Fortress. (From the Column of Trajan.) storm not only relieved their sufferings, but also strucksuch terror into the barbarians as to scatter them in Christians that made up the twelfth legion maintainedthat God had sent the rain in answer to their prayers; butthe pagan Romans interpreted the event as an interventionby Jupiter Tonans on their behalf. Upon the column of 368 ROME AS AN EMPIRE. Aurelius at Rome — where it may still be seen — was carvedthe scene, in which Olympian Jove the Thunderer is repre-sented raining and lightening out of heaven. Aurelius checked the inroads of the barbarians, but hecould not subdue them, so weakened was the empire by theravages of the pestilence, and so exhausted was the treasuryfrom the heavy and constant drains upon it. At last hisweak body gave way beneath the hardships of his numer-ous campaigns, and he died in his camp at Vin
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