_Jerome_ calls
this great multitude, _Hunns_, _Alans_, _Vandals_, _Goths_, _Sarmatians_,
_Quades_, and _Marcomans_; and saith, that they invaded all places between
_Constantinople_ and the _Julian Alps_, wasting _Scythia_, _Thrace_,
_Macedon_, _Dardania_, _Dacia_, _Thessaly_, _Achaia_, _Epirus_, _Dalmatia_,
and all _Pannonia_. The _Suevians_ also invaded _Rhaetia_: for when _Alaric_
ravaged _Pannonia_, the _Romans_ were defending _Rhaetia_; which gave
_Alaric_ an opportunity of invading _Italy_, as _Claudian_ thus mentions.
_Non nisi perfidia nacti penetrabile tempus,_
_Irrupere Getae, nostras dum Rhaetia vires_
_Occupat, atque alio desudant Marte cohortes_.
And when _Alaric_ went from those parts into _Italy_, some other barbarous
nations invaded _Noricum_ and _Vindelicia_, as the same Poet _Claudian_
thus writes:
----_Jam foedera gentes_
_Exuerant, Latiique audita clade feroces_
_Vendelicos saltus & Norica rura tenebant._
This was in the years 402 and 403. And among these nations I reckon the
_Suevians_, _Quades_, and _Marcomans_; for they were all in arms at this
time. The _Quades_ and _Marcomans_ were _Suevian_ nations; and they and the
_Suevians_ came originally from _Bohemia_, and the river _Suevus_ or
_Sprake_ in _Lusatia_; and were now united under one common King called
_Ermeric_, who soon after led them into _Gallia_. The _Vandals_ and _Alans_
might also about this time extend themselves into _Noricum_.
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