10 ItOMAN AND (IRKEK ACCOUNTS OF THE NOHTUMKN. 



arisen in a day ; it must have been the growth of even genera- 

 tions before the time of Tacitus. 



Ptolemy (circ. A.D. 140) is the first writer who mentions the 

 Saxons as inhabiting a territory north of the Elbe, on the neck 



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of the Cimbric Chersonesus. 1 They occupied but a small space, 

 for between them and the Cimbri, at the northern extremity of 

 the peninsula, he places ten other tribes, among them the Angli. 

 About a century after the time of Ptolemy, Franks and 

 Saxons had already widely extended their expeditions at sea. 

 Some of the former made an expedition from the Euxine, 

 through the Mediterranean, plundered Syracuse, and returned 

 without mishap across the great sea (A.D. circ. 280). 2 



" He (Probus) permitted the Bastarnae, a Scythian race, who 

 had submitted themselves to him, to settle in certain districts 

 of Thrace which he allotted to them, and from thenceforth 

 these people always lived under the laws and institutions of 

 Home. And there were certain Franks who had come to the 

 Emperor, and had asked for land on which to settle. A part 

 of them, however, revolted, and having obtained a large 

 number of ships, caused disturbances throughout the whole of 

 Greece, and having landed in Sicily and made an assault on 

 Syracuse, they caused much slaughter there. They also landed 

 in Libya, but were repulsed at the approach of the Cartha- 

 ginian forces. Nevertheless, they managed to get back to 

 their home unscathed." 



" Why should I tell again of the most remote nations of the 

 Franks (of Francia), which were carried away not from those 

 regions which the Romans had on a former occasion invaded, 

 but from their own native territory, and the farthest shores of the 

 land of the barbarians, and transported to the deserted parts of 

 Gaul that they might promote the peace of the Roman Empire 

 by their cultivation and its armies by their recruits ? " 3 



rl r~bv av^tva. TTJS Ki/x^pi/crjj x f P~ Surctyuecos f'/c 



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2 Batnopi'os Se, ~S.Kv6iK.ov tdvos, inroTrt- (Zosimus. de Probo, i. 71). 



ff6vTas ainif irpoff(/j.fi>os KartaKifff Qpa- 3 ''Quid loquar rursus intimas Francia? 



- Ka ^ StfTf\effav TO?S 'Pw/jLaiwf \ nationes jam non ab iis locis quas olim 



vo/xoi?. Kal 4>pdyKct!v Tip Romani invaserant, sed a propriis ex 



TrporreAfioi/Taii/ Kal TV^OVT^V origine sui sedibus, atque ab ultirais 



/j.o7pd TIS cnroirrarra, ir\oiu>v barbaria; littoribus avulsas, ut, in desertis 



rr^v 'EAA.a8a ffwe-rdpa^v Gallia} regiouibus collocata; et pacem 



KOI StweAia Trpoffffxvffa Kal rf t : Romani imperii cultu juvarent et arma 



Trpo(T/j.i^a(ra iro\vv Kara delectu ? " (Euinenius. (Jimstantiu. 



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