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Often appears with: strategy and the aims of war · military recruitment · lupicinus and maximus · danube crossing · corruption, patronage, and bribery · conquest, plunder, and captives
Usually: narrative (1) · indignation (1)
Roman officials receive the refugees with hope and greed, organize their dangerous crossing of the swollen Danube, and then assign them temporary support and land—framed as a disaster that helps undermine imperial stability.
invincible; observing further that, by the yearly payment for military reinforcements which came in every year from the provinces, a vast treasure of gold might be accumulated in his coffers. 5. Full of this hope he sent forth several officers to bring this ferocious people and their waggons into our territory. And such great pains were taken to gratify this nation which was destined to overthrow the empire of Rome,…