OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

and his presence seems to have checked theardour, and to have divided the strength, of theenemy. Naulobatus, a chief of the Heruli, ac-cepted an honourable capitulation, entered witha large body of his countrymen into the serviceof Rome , and was invested with the ornamentsof the consular dignity, which had never beforebeen profaned by the hands of a barbarian . 11Great numbers of the Goths , disgusted with theperils and hard ships of a tedious voyage, brokeinto Maesia , Avith a design of forcing their wayover the Danube to their settlements in theUkraine . The wild attemptwould have provedinevitable destruction, if the discord of the Ro-man generals had not opened to the barbariansthe means of an escape . 5 The small remainderof this destroying host returned on board theirvessels ; and measuring back their way throughthe Hellespont and the Bosphorus , ravaged intheir passage the shores of Troy, whose fame,immortalized by Homer, will probably survivethe memory of the Gothic conquests. As soonas they found themselves in safety within the ba-son of the Euxine , they landed at Anchialus inThrace, near the foot of Mount Haemus ; and,after all their toils, indulged themselves in theuse of those pleasant and salutary hot baths.

h Syncelliis, p. 382. This body of Heruli was for a long time faith-fill and famous.

‘ Claudius, who commanded on the Danube , thought w ith propriety,and acted w ith spirit. His colleague was jealous of his fame. Hist,August, p. 181.

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Their di-visionsand re-treat.