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    1. Fritigern: “Why don’t you remember your place like the rest of them. And wait for Gratian”.

    2. Valens rushed into battle at Adrianople in 378 AD without waiting for reinforcements, was outmaneuvered by Gothic cavalry, and his army was destroyed, with Valens himself likely dying in the chaos.

    3. I’m reminded of how the Romans used to fearmonger about these damn pants-wearing Gaulish foreigners Caesar had made into senators. When, in fact, those people had been Romanized for the better part of a decade at that point.

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