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settled, ill the western and south-eastern parts of the country. Again 

 disturbed by the restless Goths, they joined Genseric, who, with his 

 Alani, was conducting an expedition against Africa, 429 A.D. In ten 

 years they conquered the whole northern coast, from Tangiers to 

 Tripoli, and made Carthage the capital of the new empire. Genseric was 

 victorious in all his expeditions, and did not stop in his career until he had 

 even conquered Rome itself, 455 A.D., which for ten days was plun- 

 dered by his horde. When he died, 477 A.D., the Yandalic kingdom 

 fell into fragments. The rest of the nation was either merged in the 

 African provinces, or sent as Greek soldiers to the Persian frontier. {PI. 

 20, fg. 4, a Yandal.) 



5. The Mahcomanni. 



The Marcomanni (mark-men, inhabitants of the frontier) originally lived 

 in the southern part of Germany, and probably in what is now known as 

 Moravia, though, according to some authors, they resided between the 

 Main and the E^eckar. This much, however, is certain, that they removed, 

 under Marbodius, into Bohemia, where they formed an alliance against the 

 Romans, at the head of which they were, until at length the Cherusci 

 superseded them in the command. They retained much of their former 

 vigor, but remained quiet towards the Romans until the time of Domitian, 

 who attempted to subjugate them and the Quadi. He lost an important 

 battle with their united forces. After various incursions in Pannonia, the 

 two nations were mastered by Nerva and Trajan. They strengthened 

 themselves, however, for another conflict by alliances with the other 

 German tribes. Thus prepared, they made a descent upon the Roman 

 empire, and carried on the bitter war, in the reign of Marcus Aurelius, 

 knowTi as the war of the Marcomanni, 166-180 A.D. Commodus, 180 A.D., 

 concluded with them a peace, to secure which they had to give hostages 

 to the Romans ; moreover, they were made to pay a heavy tribute of grain, 

 restore all the prisoners (100,000 men), and even furnish auxiliary troops 

 to the Roman legions. Nevertheless, they continued to make one 

 incursion after another into the Roman empire, until the fifth century, 

 when they gradually disappeared, part of them being swept along with the 

 vast migrations of the times, and the rest merging with the Bavarians. 

 {PI. 20, Jig. 5, a Marcomann.) 



6. The Quadi. 



These people always appear in connexion with the Marcomanni, 

 together with whom they had taken possession of the territories of the 

 Bavarii, after expelling these. The constitutions of both people were alike, 

 the throne being hereditary ; and both proved equally formidable and 

 oppressive to their neighbors. The Quadi disappeared from the list of 

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