Identifier: gothsfromearlies00brad (find matches)
Title: The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Bradley, Henry, 1845-1923
Subjects: Goths
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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cession, including many Gothic captives.^ Thedress of the men consists usually of a short tunic withgirdle, wide turned-down collars, and short sleeves;an inner garment coming down to the knees ; andtrousers, sometimes reaching to the ankle, and some-times ending just below the knees. The last men-tioned article of dress is often referred to as distin-guishing the Goths from the bare-legged Romans.A king or chief, who sits with two attendants on acar drawn by oxen, is similar in his attire to the restof the captives, but his superior rank is denoted bythe collar and skirt of his tunic being cut into anornamental pattern. All the men wear long curlyhair and long beards. Some of them are bareheaded,while others wear caps of somewhat fantastic shapes.Some of the Gothic figures in the procession seem notto be prisoners of war, but auxiliaries in the Roman * This column was destroyed two hundred years ago, but carefuldrawings of the sculptures are contained in Banduris * ImperiumOrientale.
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O V. THEIR NATIONAL CHARACTER. it service, as they appear without any marks of humilia-tion, and several of them carry Roman armour. Theirleaders are on horseback, and are dressed in a stylesimilar to that of their captive countrymen, with theaddition of long fur cloaks—a garment which wasproverbially characteristic of their people. The femalecaptives appear clad in long robes down to the feet;some have their heads covered with kerchiefs, whileothers are bareheaded, with long streaming hair. Wemay safely rely on the general accuracy of this in-teresting portraiture, for at the end of the fourth cen-tury the appearance of the Goths had become familiarto all the inhabitants of Constantinople. That the Gothic people had many noble qualitieswas frequently acknowledged even by their enemies,and is abundantly proved by many incidents in theirhistory. They were brave, generous, patient underhardship and privation, and chaste and affectionate intheir family relations. The one great reproach

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