For a time it seemed as though the nomads under the leadership of the Huns and Attila would play the same part towards the Graeco-Roman civilization of the Mediterranean countries that the barbaric Greeks had played long ago to the Aegean civilization.

• 曾经有一段时期，似乎匈奴和阿提拉领导的游牧部落对地中海国家希腊和罗马文明所起的作用，相当于很久以前半开化的希腊人对爱琴海文明的作用。