By the way, with regards to the "civil war mongering" character that you might have concluded from the above, you might also remember the question about a "Germanic" ethnic influence in Spain, through the Visigoths in this thread:
The Spanish, Celts and Germans
which I denied as "Germanic" but admitted a "Gothic" heritage (as distinctive from the way too generic "Germanic").
Well, all historians identify what is known in Latin as the
morbus Gothorum, which literally translates as
"the disease of the Goths". Basically the whole Visigothic period was one of regicides leading to civil wars. Including the so-called "Islamic invasion" of 711 AD which was in fact yet another civil war between two factions to gain the throne, with the help of a foreign army (they had engaged foreign help before, the Byzantines... and the Franks which is even more outrageous than the Muslims).
So there you have all room for speculation.
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prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
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–Plato–
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