roots of such herbs as they get in the fields, or on the half-raw flesh of any animal, which they merely warm rapidly by placing it between their own thighs and the backs of their horses. They never shelter themselves under roofed houses, but avoid them as people ordinarily avoid sepulchers as things not fitted for common use...None of them plough or even touch a plough handle: for they have not settled abode, but are homeless and lawless, perpetually wandering with their wagons, which they make their homes; in fact they seem to be people always in flight. (McCullough 121, 123)
             The root of Marcellinus' bias is as easily discerned as the embellishments of his account. At the exact time of Marcellinus' account, the Huns had just come into contact with the Goths, hence the name, "A.D. 375: Huns Threaten the Goths". Roman intelligence had received word of this vigilant group attacking from the east, and R
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