They were crushed and subjugated.

The king of the Goths, Hermanric, in chagrin and despair, committed suicide, that he might escape slavery.

Thousands of the Goths, in their terror, crowded down into the Roman province of Thrace, now the Turkish province of Romania.

The empire, then in its decadence, could not drive them back, and they obtained a permanent foothold there.

The Huns thus attained the supremacy throughout all of northern Europe.
There were then very many tribes of diverse names peopling these vast realms, and incessant wars were waged between them.