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| Conquest of the Scythians defeated through the Sign of Our Saviour.
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Chapter V.—Conquest of the
Scythians defeated through the Sign of Our Saviour.
And why
should I relate even briefly and incidentally, how he subjected
barbarous nations to the Roman power; how he was the first who
subjugated the
Scythian3311
| 3311 [Probably the Goths are meant, as in Socrates’ Eccles.
Hist. Bk. I. ch. 18.—Bag.] Compare for his Gothic
wars, references in Prolegomena, under Life. | and Sarmatian tribes, which had
never learned submission, and compelled them, how unwilling soever, to
own the sovereignty of Rome? For the emperors who preceded him had
actually rendered tribute to the Scythians: and Romans, by an annual
payment, had confessed themselves servants to barbarians; an indignity
which our emperor could no longer bear, nor think it consistent with
his victorious career to continue the payment his predecessors had
made. Accordingly, with full confidence in his Saviour’s aid, he
raised his conquering standard against these enemies also, and soon
reduced them all to obedience; coercing by military force those who
fiercely resisted his authority, while, on the other hand, he
conciliated the rest by wisely conducted embassies, and reclaimed them
to a state of order and civilization from their lawless and savage
life. Thus the Scythians at length learned to acknowledge subjection to
the power of Rome.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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