08 janeiro 2018

"No one in their country ever ploughs a field or touches a plough-handle. They are all without fixed..."

“No one in their country ever ploughs a field or touches a plough-handle. They are all without fixed abode, without hearth, or law, or settled mode of life, and keep roaming from place to place, like fugitives, accompanied by the wagons in which they live.”

- Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus, describing the Huns when they first appeared to the Roman world, in the 300s CE (Res gestae 31.2.10)

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