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to go with speed, but if they should learn that some event had befallen them, to proceed no further, but to remain there. 5.12.28 And they did as Theuderic commanded them, but the Germans came to blows with the Burgundians alone. 5.12.29 And a fierce battle having taken place, a great slaughter of both sides occurs; for the engagement was for a very long time evenly matched. 5.12.30 Then the Franks, having routed their enemies, drove them to the extremities of the country which they then inhabited, where they had many strongholds, and they themselves 5.12.31 took all the rest. Which when the Goths heard, they arrived with speed. And being reproached by their allies, they alleged the difficulty of the country, and having paid the penalty, they divided the land, just as had been agreed, with the 5.12.32 victors. Thus the foresight of Theuderic was even more recognized, who, having lost none of his subjects, acquired with a little gold half of the enemy's country. Thus at the beginning, both Goths and Germans held a certain portion of Gaul. 5.12.33 Afterwards the Germans, with their power advancing before them, making light of Theuderic and the fear of him, marched against Alaric and the Visi5.12.34goths. When Alaric learned this, he summoned Theuderic as quickly as possible. And he came to their 5.12.35 aid with a great army. Meanwhile the Visigoths, since they learned that the Germans were encamped around the city of Carcasiana, went to meet them and, having made an encamp5.12.36ment, remained quiet. And as much time was being spent by them in this blockade, they grew vexed, and, since the country was being plundered by the enemy, 5.12.37 they took it ill. And finally they insulted Alaric greatly, both reproaching him for his fear of the enemy and upbraiding his kinsman for his delay. 5.12.38 For they insisted that they themselves were a match for them in battle and would more easily 5.12.39 overcome the Germans in the war by themselves. Therefore, with the Goths not yet present with them, Alaric was forced 5.12.40 to go into battle against the enemy. And the Germans, having gained the upper hand in this engagement, kill most of the Visigoths and Alaric their leader. 5.12.41 And having seized Gaul, they held most of it, but they besieged Carcasiana with great earnestness, since they learned that the royal treasure was there, which in former times Alaric the elder 5.12.42 had plundered when he captured Rome. Among these were the treasures of Solomon, the king of the Hebrews, being most worthy of sight. For emerald stone adorned most of them, which the Romans had taken from Jerusalem long ago. 5.12.43 But the surviving Visigoths proclaimed Gisilic, the illegitimate son of Alaric, as their leader, since Amalaric, the son of Theuderic's daughter, was still a mere child. 5.12.44 Then, when Theuderic arrived with the army of the Goths, 5.12.45 the Germans, in fear, broke off the siege. And withdrawing from there, they took the parts of Gaul beyond the Rhone river, facing the ocean. From where Theuderic, being unable to drive them out, allowed them to hold these parts, 5.12.46 and he himself recovered the rest of Gaul. And with Gisilic out of the way, he brought the rule of the Visigoths to his grandson Amalaric, for whom he himself 5.12.47 acted as regent while he was still a child. And taking all the treasures that lay in the city of Carcasiana, he quickly departed for Ravenna, and Theuderic, by always sending rulers and an army to both Gaul and Spain, himself in effect held the power of the kingdom, and having provided that he would hold it securely forever, he arranged for the rulers there to bring him a payment of tribute. 5.12.48 And receiving it each year, so as not to seem avaricious, he sent an annual gift to the army of the Goths and Visigoths. 5.12.49 And from that time on, as time went on, the Goths and Visigoths, since they were ruled by one man and held the same country, by betrothing their children to one another, intermingled through kinship. 5.12.50 Afterwards Theudis, a Goth, whom Theuderic had sent as commander of the army, took a wife from Spain, not, however, of noble birth

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