CHAPTER III.

The Barbarian Invasions.

Relations between the Primitive Germans and the Romans 15 Their Feelings towards Rome and her Empire 16 Belief in its Eternity 20 Extinction by Odoacer of the Western branch of the Empire 26 Theodoric the Ostrogothic King 27 Gradual Dissolution of the Empire 30 Permanence of the Roman Religion and the Roman Law 31