A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . e Sarmatian Jazyges, crossed theDanube, spread over Rhaetia, Noricum, Pannonia, and Dacia, devastat-ing far and wide, and carried off thousands of the inhabitants as the beginning of 167 they crossed the Alps, fell upon Italy,and attacked Aquileia; and at a time when the pest-stricken legions END OF THE MARCOMANNIC WAR. 189 were weakened, and the state exhausted by famine, :\Iarcus Anreliuswas called upon to strain every nerve for defence. The emperor him-self and L. Verus hastened to the no
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . e Sarmatian Jazyges, crossed theDanube, spread over Rhaetia, Noricum, Pannonia, and Dacia, devastat-ing far and wide, and carried off thousands of the inhabitants as the beginning of 167 they crossed the Alps, fell upon Italy,and attacked Aquileia; and at a time when the pest-stricken legions END OF THE MARCOMANNIC WAR. 189 were weakened, and the state exhausted by famine, :\Iarcus Anreliuswas called upon to strain every nerve for defence. The emperor him-self and L. Verus hastened to the north, and drove the enemy backacross the Danube. The emperors son-in-law, the legate PubliusHelvius Pertinax, cleared Rhaetia of enemies; the Upper Danube wasstrengthened with new fortresses (Fig. 86) at Ratisbon and Emis;and from Pannonia the war was practically limited to the Marcomanniand Jazyges. Besides L. Verus, who died in January, 169, manyable Roman leaders fell in this war; and it was not till 172 thatthe Marcomanni seemed to be completely subjected. The Quadi were. Fig. 86. — Roman tioops erecting a fortress. Eelief on the Colunni of MarcusAurelins. (From Bartoli-Bellorius.) next reduced, and in 175 the Jazyges. The conquered peopleswere forced to give up a border tract of land on the left bank of theDanube, and to furnish a contingent for the Roman army. Only arevolt in Syria prevented the emperor at that time from driving theSarmatians completely out of the country between the Theiss and theDanube. Marcus Aurelius took an important step in beginning to plantmany Germans Avithin the boundaries of the state. A part of thesesettlers consisted of remnants of homeless peoples, who, as the futuresoldiers of the state, obtained, on favorable conditions, homes alongthe border; among them Vandals were settled in Dacia. The mass 190 MARCUS AURELIUS AND HIS IMMEDIATE SUCCESSORS. of German captives were settled in various parts of the empire asbondmen, or as pe
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