the Herulians , the people of Northern Germany who penetrated into Italy and dissolved the western Roman Empire , Amm. 23, 1, 3; Paul. Diac. Longob. 1, 1; Claud. Mamert. Pan. ad Maxim. 5; Genethl. 7.—In sing. collect.: cursu Herulus, Sid.Carm. 7, 236.