The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain . way in which Jor-danes mentions them it is plain that their names anddeeds must in his time have been very familiarly 42 HOW THE GOTHS FOUGHT WITH COXSTAXTIXE. known from the old Gothic ballads. King Gebericdetermined to accomplish the task, in which hispredecessor had failed, of dislodging the V^ did not say him nay, for the Vandals,ungrateful for the help which the Romans had giventhem, had themselves been making plundering raidsinto the Roman provinces. On the banks of theriver IMarosh a battle
The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain . way in which Jor-danes mentions them it is plain that their names anddeeds must in his time have been very familiarly 42 HOW THE GOTHS FOUGHT WITH COXSTAXTIXE. known from the old Gothic ballads. King Gebericdetermined to accomplish the task, in which hispredecessor had failed, of dislodging the V^ did not say him nay, for the Vandals,ungrateful for the help which the Romans had giventhem, had themselves been making plundering raidsinto the Roman provinces. On the banks of theriver IMarosh a battle was fought, in which Wisumar,the Vandal king, was killed, and his army was routedwith great slaughter. The conquered Vandals oncemore appealed to Constantine, and he gave thempermission to settle in Pannonia and other parts ofthe empire. The Goths took possession of the de-serted territory ; and being thus freed from enemieson the west, they soon began to engage in schemesof aggression against their eastern neighbours. Butof these we shall have to speak in the next V. THE GOTHIC ALEXANDER. We come now to a reign which marks a greatepoch in the history of the Gothic people. Erman-aric, who seems to have been chosen king about theyear 350, was a great warrior, Hke many of his pre-decessors ; but his poHcy, and the objects for whichhe fought, were markedly different from theirs. Theformer kings of the Goths had been content to con-duct expeditions for the sake of plunder into theterritories of neighbouring nations, or to lead theirsubjects in search of new homes in other lands. Butthe Gothic people had now once more acquired asettled territory ; and bitter experience had compelledthem to renounce the hope of conquests in the moregenial and wealthy countries of the south. Thesenew conditions gave a new direction to their warlikeambition. Ermanaric made no attempt to invadethe provinces of the Roman Empire ; but he resolvedto make his Ostrogothic kingdom the centre of agr
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