The pride of the nation was gratified by the splendid and almost royal decorations bestowed on their magistrate and his successors.

A perpetual exemption from all duties was stipulated for their vessels which traded to the ports of the Black Sea.

A regular subsidy was promised, of iron, corn, oil, and of every supply which could be useful either in peace or war.

But it was thought that the Sarmatians were sufficiently rewarded by their deliverance from impending ruin; and the emperor, perhaps with too strict an economy, deducted some part of the expenses of the war from the customary gratifications which were allowed to that turbulent nation.
Exasperated by this apparent neglect, the Sarmatians soon forgot, with the levity of barbarians, the services which they had so lately received, and the dangers which still threatened their safety.

Their inroads on the territory of the empire provoked the indignation of Constantine to leave them to their fate; and he no longer opposed the ambition of Geberic, a renowned warrior, who had recently ascended the Gothic throne.