text:  So completely were the inhabitants of the provinces within the Rhine and the Danube paralysed that they ceased to make any resistance to the hordes of invaders; and the fortunes of the empire were for several generations sustained solely by the heroic efforts of individual leaders--Belisarius Narces Julian Aurelian Constantine and many others--whose renown though it could not rouse the pacific inhabitants to warlike efforts yet attracted military adventurers from all parts of the world to their standard