ABSTRACT
IN case what I have just stated should need the celebrated evidence of other writers about the upbringing, activities, and triumphs of Gothic women, let the reader look at Justin, Bk II, where he sets out the origin of the Amazons. 2 Paulus Orosius was indebted to him when he composed his account of the Scythian women, to which he adds a reference to the Goths, intending to demonstrate the root from which the Amazons issued. 3 Jordanes also, following Dio the Greek and Ablabius, the Roman senator, testifies in clear language that it was from the Goths that the Amazons first sprang. 4 Jordanes also bears witness that he read time and again the twelve books by a senator upon the same subject, 5 and that it was from these that he preserved in his memory what he wrote. Perhaps if these books were to hand, much plainer and surer evidence on this subject could be brought forward.
Origin of the Amazons
12 books by a Roman senator
