In James J O'Donell's _The Ruin of the Roman Empire_, and his other works, he takes great pains to explain that neither the visigoths nor the ostragoths were actually "barbarians".
They'd been living side-by-side with Romans for centuries. They were, in fact, the chosen mercenary soldiers Rome turned to again and again, against a variety of enemies.
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