“Sachen Angelt, the capital of the Saxons, never pleased Gaul. He, as a person raised in the lands of Frisia, close to the court of King Sigmund, who had absorbed Roman customs and culture from early childhood, considered the Saxons to be savages. For many years now, he, the eyes and ears of the king of the Frisians, visited Sahen-Anhelt with enviable frequency. Ten years ago, when Gallius was still young, he was barely eighteen years old, the king of the Frisians sent him to the Saxons, so that the intelligent young man would report to him everything that was happening in the enemy camp...”