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Excerpt from An Introduction to the Sources Relating to the Germanic Invasions A. D. 212, a Roman citizen might be a Briton at York or a Spaniard at New Carthage or a Greek at Corinth or a Syrian at Damascus. Everyone within the community of law was a Roman; everyone outside was a barbarian. Thus barbarian meant simply a foreigner, an alien, and was applied alike to Parthian, German, Nubian and Hun. Citizenship, not language or custom or race, was the su preme test with the Roman; and the babel of peoples which composed the Roman commonwealth was not concerned with nice distinctions between foreign tribes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.