No, I mean literally hoards of barbarians from as far away as East of the Ural mountains. The Huns, for example, were not neighboring peoples. They were hoard

No, I mean literally hoards of barbarians from as far away as East of the Ural mountains. The Huns, for example, were not neighboring peoples. They were hoards of horse archers that came from, literally, a thousand miles beyond the Roman border to pillage. Their destruction of the Roman borders is what drove other Germanic tribes to flee west, further destroying Roman stability.