Note 160 According to the system of Jornandes (c. 33, p. 659 [ed. Grot.]), the true hereditary right to the Gothic sceptre was vested in the Amali; but those princes, who were the vassals of the Huns commanded the tribes of the Ostrogoths in some distant parts of Germany or Scythia.

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 31