Outlines of Ancient History, From the Earliest Times to Be Fall of the Western Roman Empire, A. D. 476
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These intruders were seeking new homes, and were driven on, it would almost seem, by a blind and in- stinctive impulse. They carried with them, in rude wagons, all their property, their wives, and their children. The Celtic tribes of Gaul were no match for the new-comers, and fled be- fore them as they advanced. Several Roman armies beyond the Alps were cut to pieces. In one battle more than one hundred thousand Romans are said to have been slaughtered. The terror at Rome was only equalled by t...hat occasioned by the invasion of the Gauls two centuries before. The Gauls were terrible enough ; but now the conquerors of the Gauls were coming. Marius, the conqueror of Jugurtha, was looked to by all as the only man who could save the state in this crisis. He was re-elected to the consulship, and intrusted with the command 316 ANCIENT HISTORY. of the armies. Accompanied by Sulla as one of his most skil- ful lieutenants, Marius hastened into Northern Italy. The barbarians had divided into two bands.
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