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The Huns, says Ammianus, were "so prodigiously ugly and bent that they might be taken for two-legged
animals or the figures crudely carved from stumps, which are seen on the parapets of bridges." They caused
excessive panic, Jordanes says, by the terror of their faces; they put men to flight by their "terrifying appearance, which inspired fear because of its swarthiness,
and they had, if I may call it so, a sort of shapeless lump, not a head."
ÐÐ E.A. Thompson, The Huns, 1948 (originally published by Oxford University Press) Blackwell Press edition, pp. 56-57
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