The world and I shall now describe the character and actions of that formidable Barbarian who alternately insulted and invaded the East and the West, and urged the rapid downfal of the Ro∣man empire. In the reign of ATTILA 1, the Huns again became the terror of Their victorious hords had spread from the Volga to the Danube but the public force was exhausted by the discord of independent chief∣tains their valour was idly consumed in obscure and predatory excursions and they often de∣graded their national dignity by condescending, for the hopes of spoil, to enlist under the ban∣ners of their fugitive enemies. THE western world was oppressed by the Goths and Vandals, who fled before the Huns but the atchievements of the Huns them∣selves * were not adequate to their power and pro∣sperity. The Character, Conquests, and Court of Attila, King of the Huns.-Death of Theodosius the Younger.-Elevation of Marcian to the Empire of the East.
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