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fourth century A.D. give us representations — probably more or 

 less faithful — of the war-horses in use when Vegetius was 

 writing. The passage of Procopius just cited shows that the 

 Goths who marched on Rome in Justinian's reign (527 — 565) 

 were amply supplied with cavalry, their nobles apparently being 

 all mounted men. 



On the other hand the Franks and their kinsmen and 

 neighbours, the Angli and the Werini, do not appear to have 

 kept horses or taken to cavalry till a time much later than the 

 peoples of whom we have spoken. Indeed it will presently be 



Fig. 92. Eoman Contorniates ; 4th century a.d. 



made clear that, the Angles at the time of their settlement in 

 Britain had no cavalry, and that their neighbours the Werini, 

 when attacked by an expeditionary force of Angles from Britain, 

 did not employ any horsemen. 



It is highly probable that the Franks had not cavalry until 

 under Clovis (481 — 511) they marched against the Thuringians, 

 defeated and slew their king, and reduced the whole nation 

 to subjection; and later on making war on the Burgundians 

 reduced them likewise, and treating them .as "captives of the 

 spear " compelled them thenceforth to serve with them in war, 

 and took over all the territory which the Burgundians pre- 



