Mediana, only three miles from Naissus,
they executed the solemn and final division of the Roman empire. [32]
Valentinian bestowed on his brother the rich praefecture of the East,
from the Lower Danube to the confines of Persia; whilst he reserved for
his immediate government the warlike [3a] praefectures of Illyricum,
Italy, and Gaul, from the extremity of Greece to the Caledonian rampart,
and from the rampart of Caledonia to the foot of Mount Atlas. The
provincial administration remained on its former basis; but a double
supply of generals and magistrates was required for two councils, and
two courts: the division was made with a just regard to their peculiar
merit and situation, and seven master-generals were soon created,
either of the cavalry or infantry. When this important business had been
amicably transacted, Valentinian and Valens embraced for the last time.
The emperor of the West established his temporary residence at Milan;
and the emperor of the East returned to Constantinople, to assume the
dominion of fifty provinces, of whose language he was totally ignorant.
[33]

[Footnote 29: Notwithstanding the evidence of Zonaras, Suidas, and the
Paschal Chronicle, M. de Tillemont (Hist. des Empereurs, tom. v. p. 671)
wishes to disbelieve those stories, si avantageuses a un payen.]

[Footnote 30: Eunapius celebrates and exaggerates the sufferings of
Maximus. (p. 82, 83;) yet he allows that the sophist or magician, the
guilty favorite of Julian, and the personal enemy of Valentinian, was
dismissed on the payment of a small fine.]

[Footnote 31: The loose assertions of a general disgrace (Zosimus, l.
iv. p. 201), are detected and refuted by Tillemont, (tom. v. p. 21.)]

[Footnote 32: Ammianus, xxvi. 5.]

[Footnote 32a: Ipae supra impacati Rhen semibarbaras ripas raptim
vexilla constituens * * Princeps creatus ad difficilem militiam
revertisti. Symm. Orat. 81.--M.]

[Footnote 33: Ammianus says, in general terms, subagrestis ingenii, nec
bellicis nec liberalibus studiis eruditus. Ammian. xxxi. 14. The orator
Themistius, with the genuine impertinence of a Greek, wishes for the
first time to speak the Latin language, the dialect of his sovereign.
Orat. vi. p. 71.]

The tranquility of the East was soon disturbed by rebellion; and the
throne of Valens was threatened by the daring attempts of a rival whose
affinity to the emperor Julian [34] was his sole merit, and had been his
only crime. Procopius had been hastily