the innocent victim would be
torn from her arms, to appease, with his blood, the suspicions of the
reigning prince. [18]

[Footnote 11: Johan. Antiochen. in Excerpt. Valesian. p. 845. The libels
of Antioch may be admitted on very slight evidence.]

[Footnote 12: Compare Ammianus, (xxv. 10,) who omits the name of the
Batarians, with Zosimus, (l. iii. p. 197,) who removes the scene of
action from Rheims to Sirmium.]

[Footnote 13: Quos capita scholarum ordo castrensis appellat. Ammian.
xxv. 10, and Vales. ad locum.]

[Footnote 14: Cugus vagitus, pertinaciter reluctantis, ne in curuli
sella veheretur ex more, id quod mox accidit protendebat. Augustus and
his successors respectfully solicited a dispensation of age for the sons
or nephews whom they raised to the consulship. But the curule chair of
the first Brutus had never been dishonored by an infant.]

[Footnote 15: The Itinerary of Antoninus fixes Dadastana 125 Roman miles
from Nice; 117 from Ancyra, (Wesseling, Itinerar. p. 142.) The pilgrim
of Bourdeaux, by omitting some stages, reduces the whole space from 242
to 181 miles. Wesseling, p. 574. * Note: Dadastana is supposed to be
Castabat.--M.]

[Footnote 16: See Ammianus, (xxv. 10,) Eutropius, (x. 18.) who might
likewise be present, Jerom, (tom. i. p. 26, ad Heliodorum.) Orosius,
(vii. 31,) Sozomen, (l. vi. c. 6,) Zosimus, (l. iii. p. 197, 198,)
and Zonaras, (tom. ii. l. xiii. p. 28, 29.) We cannot expect a perfect
agreement, and we shall not discuss minute differences.]

[Footnote 17: Ammianus, unmindful of his usual candor and good sense,
compares the death of the harmless Jovian to that of the second
Africanus, who had excited the fears and resentment of the popular
faction.]

[Footnote 18: Chrysostom, tom. i. p. 336, 344, edit. Montfaucon.
The Christian orator attempts to comfort a widow by the examples of
illustrious misfortunes; and observes, that of nine emperors (including
the Caesar Gallus) who had reigned in his time, only two (Constantine
and Constantius) died a natural death. Such vague consolations have
never wiped away a single tear.]

After the death of Jovian, the throne of the Roman world remained ten
days, [19] without a master. The ministers and generals still continued
to meet in council; to exercise their respective functions; to maintain
the public order; and peaceably to conduct the army to the city of Nice
in Bithynia, which was chosen for the place of the election. [20] In
a solemn