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In this emergency, the senators resumed the defence of the republic, drew out the Prætorian guards, who had been left to garrison the capital, and filled up their numbers, by enlisting into the public service the stoutest and most willing of the Plebeians. The Alemanni, astonished with the sudden appearance of an army more numerous than their own, retired into Germany, laden with spoil; and their retreat was esteemed as a victory by the unwarlike Romans.","notes":[{"id":"89","text":"Zosimus, l. i. p. 34.","voice":"Gibbon","at":709}],"authorities":["Zosimus"],"alt":48,"wps":24}},{"role":"selected","paragraph":364,"humanUrl":"https://gloss.page/read.html?t=gibbon-1#p364","chapter":{"type":"chapter","label":"Chapter X","short":"Chapter X","head":"Chapter X · Emperors Decius, Gallus, Æmilianus, Valerian And Gallienus"},"unit":{"i":363,"v":9,"kind":"p","text":"When Gallienus received the intelligence that his capital was delivered from the barbarians, he was much less delighted than alarmed with the courage of the senate, since it might one day prompt them to rescue the public from domestic tyranny as well as from foreign invasion. His timid ingratitude was published to his subjects, in an edict which prohibited the senators from exercising any military employment, and even from approaching the camps of the legions. But his fears were groundless. The rich and luxurious nobles, sinking into their natural character, accepted, as a favor, this disgraceful exemption from military service; and as long as they were indulged in the enjoyment of their baths, their theatres, and their villas, they cheerfully resigned the more dangerous cares of empire to the rough hands of peasants and soldiers.","notes":[{"id":"90","text":"Aurel. Victor, in Gallieno et Probo. His complaints breathe as uncommon spirit of freedom.","voice":"Gibbon","at":842}],"authorities":[],"alt":40,"wps":34}},{"role":"after","paragraph":365,"humanUrl":"https://gloss.page/read.html?t=gibbon-1#p365","chapter":{"type":"chapter","label":"Chapter X","short":"Chapter X","head":"Chapter X · Emperors Decius, Gallus, Æmilianus, Valerian And Gallienus"},"unit":{"i":364,"v":9,"kind":"p","text":"Another invasion of the Alemanni, of a more formidable aspect, but more glorious event, is mentioned by a writer of the lower empire. Three hundred thousand are said to have been vanquished, in a battle near Milan, by Gallienus in person, at the head of only ten thousand Romans. We may, however, with great probability, ascribe this incredible victory either to the credulity of the historian, or to some exaggerated exploits of one of the emperor’s lieutenants. It was by arms of a very different nature, that Gallienus endeavored to protect Italy from the fury of the Germans. He espoused Pipa, the daughter of a king of the Marcomanni, a Suevic tribe, which was often confounded with the Alemanni in their wars and conquests. To the father, as the price of his alliance, he granted an ample settlement in Pannonia. The native charms of unpolished beauty seem to have fixed the daughter in the affections of the inconstant emperor, and the bands of policy were more firmly connected by those of love. But the haughty prejudice of Rome still refused the name of marriage to the profane mixture of a citizen and a barbarian; and has stigmatized the German princess with the opprobrious title of concubine of Gallienus.","notes":[{"id":"91","text":"Zonaras, l. xii. p. 631.","voice":"Gibbon","at":279},{"id":"92","text":"One of the Victors calls him king of the Marcomanni; the other of the Germans.","voice":"Gibbon","at":729},{"id":"93","text":"See Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, tom. iii. p. 398, &c.","voice":"Gibbon","at":1219}],"authorities":["Zonaras","Tillemont"],"alt":47,"wps":26}}]}