Fortissimarum gentium dominus, qui inaudita ante se potentia, solus Scythica et Germanica regna possedit. Jornandes, c. 49, p. 684; Priscus, p. 64, 65 [p. 199-201, ed. Bonn].
M. de Guignes, by his knowledge of the Chinese has acquired (tom. ii. p. 295-301) an adequate idea of the empire of Attila.