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One cannot look into the pages of Gibbon, without seeing that the normal condition of the empire was one of revolt, civil war, invasion Pretenders, like Carausius and Allectus in Britain, setting themselves up as emperors for awhile Bands of brigands, like the Bagaudae of Gaul, and the Circumcelliones of Africa, wandering about, desperate with hunger and revenge, to slay and pillage Teutonic tribes making forays on the frontier, enlisted into the Roman armies, and bought off, or hired to keep back the tribes behind them, and perish by their brethren's swords.
Augustine says about the disreputable hordes of would-be martyrs called Circumcelliones. Untergangs der antiken Welt, vol. iii, Anhang, pp. 503 ff. I. Origin of the Olympians
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