like, more time practicing fighting wolves, less time practicing the 18 disctinct motions involved in drawing your sword
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Gibbon seems blissfully unaware that the Romans had been complaining about the decline of their civic morals since the days of Cato the Elder during the Middle Republic some 650 years before the empire fell and instead takes them all at their word.
His understanding of the late Roman army and the place of the Foederati in it is, as you'd expect, centuries out of date. Archaeology has done a lot to change our understanding of some of these institutions and their changes, but by virtue of writing before...
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...the entire discipline of archaeology existed, Gibbon is robbed of the ability to take advantage of it. That also robs him of the ability to make any sense of the economic decline of the empire because, relying on the literary sources, he doesn't know when it happened...
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...which is a real problem because it seems to have begun under the Five Good Emperors in the second century, which also places it well before widespread Christian influence on Roman culture.
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