He attacked the barbarians, who were not looking for his arrival and were likewise fewer in number, and slew Phranapates and many others.

But if they cannot exert themselves to expel the barbarians, why call for the princess to propitiate them? PRESIDENT.

Previous civilizations have been harried, hectored and undermined by migrating "barbarians" who had heard of accumulated wealth and had come to share or perhaps to take over the "honey-pot" and lick up the honey.

AURELIA`NUS, LUCIUS DOMITIUS, powerful in physique, and an able Roman emperor; son of a peasant of Pannonia; distinguished as a skilful and successful general; was elected emperor, 270; drove the barbarians out of Italy; vanquished Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, carrying her captive to Rome; subdued a usurper in Gaul, and while on his way to crush a rebellion in Persia was assassinated by his troops (212-275).

He was a meditative sage rather than a man of action; although he successfully fought the Germanic barbarians, and repelled their fearful incursions.

Four years later, in the year 109, M. Junius Silanus, colleague of Marius, met the same barbarians, who had now crossed the Rhine, in the new province of South Gaul, and was in his turn defeated.

The two forces were rather evenly matched until Gnæus Hosidius Geta, at the risk of being captured, managed to conquer the barbarians in such a way that he received triumphal honors without having ever been consul.

Therefore the Romans, while appearing to besiege the city, really suffered the fate of besieged, until a furious rain and great wind sprang up (the winter having already set in) during their attack on one point in the wall, which first drove the assailants back, making them seek shelter in their tents, and then confined the barbarians, too, in their houses.

Its immense surface contains only ignorant barbarians, who are as uncivilized now as they were three thousand years ago.

The best is to descend upon it from America and the Pacificfrom the barbarians and the deep sea.

They have conspired to despatch all barbarians by their physicking, but they get themselves paid for it, that people may trust them and that they may the more easily bring us to ruin.

But when we shout or whisper across the seas that we too despise the barbarians we help no one.

They make war against and destroy the early barbarians; they burn their water-huts, and force them to the mountains, or to the most northern portions of the continent.

While following up some fugitives he fell in with Catugnatus himself, and would have perished with all his force, had not the advent of a violent storm detained the barbarians from pursuit.

Right, said his companion feircely;the glory of Sweden is lost!Let us disappoint these barbarians, these Russian monsters, of the pleasure of insulting us on our country's fall.

Taking charge of these he crossed the stream, and encountering the barbarians, who had gathered at his approach, he defeated them in a pitched battle and captured Camulodunum, the capital of Cynobelinus.

Of the achievements of Phillips in the way of science (for he assures he is born to the high destiny of enlightening both barbarians and civilized nations)

Singularly enough, he accomplished nothing; in fact, he told on his return that his mediation had only exasperated the barbarians.

Beyond these again are the Irongates, which were constructed by Alexander, to exclude the barbarians from Persia, of which I shall speak hereafter, as I passed that way in my return.

He did not fear these barbarians, but he wept when he foresaw the evil they would do when he was dead.

Men call them by their father's name; and that Shall never grace barbarians!

They halted, both of them, near Aix, on the borders of the Coenus, the barbarians in the valley, Marius on a hill which commanded it.

She practiced this anarchy in the guise of religion, as the old crusaders out-heathened the barbarians, and raided civilisation in the name of the Cross.

Those old Hebrews esteemed the whole world Gentiles; the Greeks held all barbarians but themselves; our modern Italians account of us as dull Transalpines by way of reproach, they scorn thee and thy country which thou so much admirest.

But conciliation, without firmness, will not impress barbarians.