The Lantern

Ecclesiastical History · Book 69

CCEL

CHAPTER IX.

INROAD AND DESTRUCTION OF THE BARBARIANS.

IN the army, matters continued in the same state; and, in consequence, the barbarians made an inroad, in the expectation that there would be no one to check them in the exercise of barbarian practices. Germanus, however, encounters them with his forces, and inflicted a defeat so destructive, that not a man was left to convey to the Persians tidings of the misfortune. |295