be suspected, that
his mortal disease was contracted amidst the pleasures of the Imperial
banquets. But the policy of Theodosius derived more solid benefit from
the death, than he could have expected from the most faithful services,
of his ally. The funeral of Athanaric was performed with solemn rites in
the capital of the East; a stately monument was erected to his memory;
and his whole army, won by the liberal courtesy, and decent grief, of
Theodosius, enlisted under the standard of the Roman empire. [122] The
submission of so great a body of the Visigoths was productive of the
most salutary consequences; and the mixed influence of force, of reason,
and of corruption, became every day more powerful, and more extensive.
Each independent chieftain hastened to obtain a separate treaty, from
the apprehension that an obstinate delay might expose him, alone and
unprotected, to the revenge, or justice, of the conqueror. The general,
or rather the final, capitulation of the Goths, may be dated four years,
one month, and twenty-five days, after the defeat and death of the
emperor Valens. [123]

[Footnote 119: Compare Themistius (Orat, xiv. p. 181) with Zosimus (l.
iv. p. 232,) Jornandes, (c. xxvii. p. 649,) and the prolix Commentary
of M. de Buat, (Hist. de Peuples, &c., tom. vi. p. 477--552.) The
Chronicles of Idatius and Marcellinus allude, in general terms, to
magna certamina, magna multaque praelia. The two epithets are not easily
reconciled.]

[Footnote 120: Zosimus (l. iv. p. 232) styles him a Scythian, a name
which the more recent Greeks seem to have appropriated to the Goths.]

[Footnote 121: The reader will not be displeased to see the original
words of Jornandes, or the author whom he transcribed. Regiam urbem
ingressus est, miransque, En, inquit, cerno quod saepe incredulus
audiebam, famam videlicet tantae urbis. Et huc illuc oculos volvens,
nunc situm urbis, commeatumque navium, nunc moenia clara pro spectans,
miratur; populosque diversarum gentium, quasi fonte in uno e diversis
partibus scaturiente unda, sic quoque militem ordinatum aspiciens; Deus,
inquit, sine dubio est terrenus Imperator, et quisquis adversus eum
manum moverit, ipse sui sanguinis reus existit Jornandes (c. xxviii. p.
650) proceeds to mention his death and funeral.]

[Footnote 122: Jornandes, c. xxviii. p. 650. Even Zosimus (l. v. p. 246)
is compelled to approve the generosity of Theodosius, so honorable to
himself, and so beneficial to the