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grbs-7661	Croke, Brian	Evidence for the Hun Invasion of Thrace in A.D. 422	1977	21	.pdf	application/pdf	9335	456	67	In eulogizing the piety of Theodosius II, Theodoret points out that God rewarded him with victories over both Huns and Persians: the Hun king Rua in­ vaded Thrace and threatened to lay Constantinople low in a siege, but divine intervention put Rua and his army to flight in a blaze of destruction; while the Romans were occupied with other wars the Persians invaded, but God sent a flood to cramp the style of the Persian cavalry. Jones appears to be alone in dating this treaty to 422.16 To review the argument thus far: if we accept the common inter­ pretation of the evidence already presented, we have three separate invasions of Thrace between 422 and 434: (A) that of 422, result un­ known (Marcellinus); (8) an otherwise unknown invasion about 430 which resulted in the Huns being paid 350 pounds of gold annually (Priscus); (C) an otherwise unknown and destructive invasion of Thrace before 434 in which Rua threatened the imperial capital itself (Theodoret).	cache/grbs-7661.pdf	txt/grbs-7661.txt