Guanius

Family: Huns · Role: king of the Huns · First appears: Book V 13–16

Life events

• Guanius and Melga’s forces murdered most of the shipwrecked virgins.(Book V 13–16)
  • With: Melga
  • “For they happened to fall into the hands of the cruel army of Guanius and Melga, who, by the command of Gratian, were making terrible destruction in Germany, and the nations on the sea-coast. Guanius was king of the Huns, and Melga of the Picts, whom Gratian had engaged in his party, and had sent him into Germany to harass those of Maximian's party along the sea-coasts. While they were thus exercising their barbarous rage, they happened to light upon these virgins, who had been driven on those parts, and were so inflamed with their beauty, that they courted them to their brutish embraces; which, when the women would not submit to, the Ambrons fell upon them, and without remorse murdered the greatest part of them.”
• Guanius and Melga invaded Britain and devastated its undefended cities and countryside.(Book V 13–16 · 📍 Albania)
  • With: Melga
  • “Then joining in a body, they invaded the kingdom, which was left without either government or defence, and made miserable destruction among the common people.”
• Gratian Municeps defeated Guanius and Melga and drove them into Ireland.(Book V 13–16 · 📍 Ireland)
  • With: Gratian Municeps Melga
  • “who, as soon as they arrived, fought with the enemy, and after a most bloody victory over them, forced them to fly over into Ireland.”
• Guanius and Melga seized Albania as far as the wall.(Book VI 1–3 · 📍 Albania)
  • With: Melga
  • “the two leaders, Guanius and Melga, issued forth from their ships, in which they had fled over into Ireland, and with their bands of Scots, Picts, Norwegians, Dacians, and others, whom they had brought along with them, seized upon all Albania as far as the very wall.”
• Guanius and Melga’s forces began devastating the island after the Romans departed.(Book VI 1–3 · 📍 the island)
  • With: Melga
  • “Understanding, likewise, that the Romans were gone, never to return any more, they now, in a more insolent manner than before, began their devastations in the island.”

Book V 13–16

• sworn: Gratian “For Maximian, as we have already related, had carried away with him all the warlike youth that could be found, and had left behind him only the husbandmen, who had neither sense nor arms, for the defence of their country. Guanius and Melga, finding that they were not able to make the least opposition, began to domineer most insolently, and to lay waste their cities and countries, as if they had only been pens of sheep.”
• sworn: Valentinian “Guanius and Melga, being the partizans of Gratian and Valentinian, when they had learned that the island of Britain was drained of all its soldiers, made a speedy voyage towards it;”
• enemies with Maximian “whom Gratian had engaged in his party, and had sent him into Germany to harass those of Maximian's party along the sea-coasts.”
• with Melga (They act as allied co-leaders.) “Then joining in a body, they invaded the kingdom, which was left without either government or defence, and made miserable destruction among the common people.”

Book VI 1–3

• with Melga (co-leaders) “the two leaders, Guanius and Melga, issued forth from their ships”

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