The Huns Indemnity Policy - Theodosius and the Empire

" attila was not actually interested in annexing roman territory or in trying to conquer the empire per se as. You will recall, the whole trigger for this lightning campaign had been constantinople's experiment with not paying the indemnity that they had agreed to." "Attila took the opportunity to jack up the going rate for keeping the huns out of the field from 14 hundred to 21 hundred pounds of gold per year," he says. 'We're going to need that six thousand pounds of gold you already owe us up front'