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of the Visigoths, but from the house of a certain prosperous native, who was not only endowed with great wealth but was also mistress of much land in 5.12.51 Spain. Wherefore, having gathered about two thousand soldiers and surrounded himself with a force of bodyguards, he ruled the Goths in name by Theoderic's leave, but in fact 5.12.52 he was no inconspicuous tyrant. But Theoderic, who had reached the height of intelligence and experience, fearing lest the Franks, as was likely, should join battle with him for waging war on his own servant, or lest the Visigoths should make some revolutionary move against him, not only did not depose Theudis from his command, but even ordered him always to lead the army when it went to 5.12.53 war. However, he instructed the leading men of the Goths to write to him that he would be doing what was both just and worthy of his intelligence, if he came to Ravenna and 5.12.54 paid his respects to Theoderic. But Theudis carried out all that Theoderic commanded, and never failed to pay the annual tribute, but he was neither willing to go to Ravenna nor did he promise those who wrote that he would. 5.13.1 But when Theoderic had departed from the world, the Franks, since no one any longer stood in their way, marched against the Thuringians, and killed Hermenefrid their ruler and made them all subject 5.13.2 and held them. But the wife of Hermenefrid, escaping with her children, came to Theodatus her 5.13.3 brother, who was at that time ruler of the Goths. After this the Germans came to blows with the surviving Burgundians, and having conquered them in battle, they imprisoned their ruler in one of the fortresses there and held him under guard, and having made them their subjects, they compelled them thenceforth to march with them against their enemies as prisoners of war, and they acquired all the land which the Burgundians had formerly inhabited, making it subject to the payment 5.13.4 of tribute. And Amalaric, who ruled the Visigoths, when he came to man’s estate, dreading the power of the Germans, took to wife the sister of Theudebert, the ruler of the Germans, and divided Gaul with the Goths and his nephew Ata5.13.5laric. For the Goths received by lot the lands inside the Rhone River, while the lands outside it passed to the rule of the Visi5.13.6goths. It was also agreed that the tribute, which Theoderic had imposed, should no longer be brought to the Goths, and all the treasures that he had chanced to take from the city of Carcassonne, Atalaric rightly and justly 5.13.7 restored to Amalaric. And since both these nations happened to have been joined by marriage, they gave to each man who was married into the other nation the choice, whether he wished to follow his wife, or to lead her to his own 5.13.8 people. And there were many who led their wives where they wished, and many who were led by their 5.13.9 wives. But later Amalaric, having offended his wife's brother, suffered a great misfortune. 5.13.10 For since his wife was of the orthodox faith, while he himself held the heresy of Arius, he would not allow her to observe her accustomed rites nor to worship God according to her ancestral customs, but because she was unwilling to conform to his ways he held her in great dishonor. And since the woman was not able to bear these things, she reported 5.13.11 everything to her brother. For this very reason the Germans and the Visigoths went to war with each other. And for a long time the battle was very fierce, but in the end Amalaric was defeated and lost many of his people, 5.13.12 and he himself died. And Theudebert took both his sister with all her possessions and all that part of Gaul which the Visi5.13.13goths had received as their portion and held. The survivors of the defeated army, leaving Gaul with their wives and children, went to Spain to Theudis, who was by this time openly acting as tyrant. In this way, then, the Goths and the Germans came to hold Gaul. 5.13.14 At a later time Theodatus, the leader of the Goths, when he learned that Belisarius had come to Sicily, made a treaty with the Germans, on the condition that they should have the portion in Gaul belonging to the Goths and should receive twenty centenaria of gold, and should join them in waging this 5.13.15 war. And the agreements not yet in deed

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