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Gibbon’s catalog of the Roman-Gothic alliance advancing to relieve Orleans from the marauding horde of Huns, Franks, and Vandals:

“…the Laeti, the Armoricans, the Breones, the Saxons, the Burgundians, the Sarmatians or Alani, the Ripurians, and the Franks who followed Meroveus as their lawful prince. Such was the various army, which, under the conduct of Aetius and Theodoric, advanced, by rapid marches, to relieve Orleans, and to give battle to the innumerable host of Attila.”