Attila the Hun: Scourge of God
The Ancients
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The Life and Times of Attila
Priscus describes Attila as a ruler away from the military in the front line of war. He's presented as this tyrant to everybody he's afraid of, but what these passages do allude to is that the Hunking was of course responsible for the dispensation of justice. How did the Huns administer justice? But given the dearth of evidence that we have, this is something that we know a little about. The Romans were afraid of Roman subjects defecting to the Huns because there was actually quite sizable number of Roman citizens who worked for the Huns.
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