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CONTENTS
| German Freedom | 223 | |
| Assemblies of the People | 224 | |
| Authority of the Princes and Magistrates | 225 | |
| More Absolute over the Property, than over the Persons of the Germans | 225 | |
| Voluntary Engagements | 226 | |
| German Chastity | 227 | |
| Its Probable Causes | 227 | |
| Religion | 229 | |
| Its Effects in Peace | 229 | |
| ———— in War | 230 | |
| The Bards | 230 | |
| Causes which checked the Progress of the Germans | 231 | |
| Want of Arms | 231 | |
| ——— Discipline | 232 | |
| Civil Dissensions of Germany | 233 | |
| Fomented by the Policy of Rome | 233 | |
| Transient Union against Marcus Antoninus | 234 | |
| Distinction of the German Tribes | 235 | |
| Numbers | 236 |
The Emperors Decius, Gallus, Æmilianus, Valerian, and Gallicnus—The General Irruption of the Barbarians—The Thirty Tyrants
| A.D. | PAGE | |
| 248-268 | The Nature of the Subject | 237 |
| The Emperor Philip | 237 | |
| 249 | Services, Revolt, Victory, and Reign of the Emperor Decius | 238 |
| 250 | He marches against the Goths | 239 |
| Origin of the Goths from Scandinavia | 239 | |
| Religion of the Goths | 240 | |
| Institutions and Death of Odin | 240 | |
| Agreeable, but uncertain Hypothesis concerning Odin | 241 | |
| Emigration of the Goths from Scandinavia into Prussia | 241 | |
| ————— from Prussia to the Ukraine | 242 | |
| The Gothic Nation increases in its March | 243 | |
| Distinction of the Germans and Sarmatians | 244 | |
| Description of the Ukraine | 244 | |
| The Goths invade the Roman Provinces | 245 | |
| 250 | Various Events of the Gothic War | 246 |
| 251 | Decius revives the office of Censor in the Person of Valerian | 247 |
| The Design Impracticable, and without Effect | 248 | |
| Defeat and Death of Decius and his Son | 249 | |
| 251 | Election of Gallus | 250 |
| 252 | Retreat of the Goths | 250 |
| Gallus purchases Peace by the Payment of an annual Tribute | 250 | |
| Popular Discontent | 251 | |
| 253 | Victory and Revolt of Æmilianus | 251 |
| Gallus abandoned and slain | 252 | |
| Valerian revenges the Death of Gallus | 252 | |
| Is acknowledged Emperor | 252 | |
| Character of Valerian | 253 |
