fiducia corporis ipsis hostibus jussit, suum
vincire rectorem: atque ita turmarum, antesignanus umbratilis comprensus
suorum manibus. The strength and beauty of Arintheus, the new Hercules,
are celebrated by St. Basil, who supposed that God had created him as an
inimitable model of the human species. The painters and sculptors could
not express his figure: the historians appeared fabulous when they
related his exploits, (Ammian. xxvi. and Vales. ad loc.)]

[Footnote 41: The same field of battle is placed by Ammianus in Lycia,
and by Zosimus at Thyatira, which are at the distance of 150 miles
from each other. But Thyatira alluitur Lyco, (Plin. Hist. Natur. v. 31,
Cellarius, Geograph. Antiq. tom. ii. p. 79;) and the transcribers might
easily convert an obscure river into a well-known province. * Note:
Ammianus and Zosimus place the last battle at Nacolia in Phrygia;
Ammianus altogether omits the former battle near Thyatira. Procopius
was on his march (iter tendebat) towards Lycia. See Wagner's note, in
c.--M.]

[Footnote 42: The adventures, usurpation, and fall of Procopius, are
related, in a regular series, by Ammianus, (xxvi. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,)
and Zosimus, (l. iv. p. 203-210.) They often illustrate, and seldom
contradict, each other. Themistius (Orat. vii. p. 91, 92) adds some
base panegyric; and Euna pius (p. 83, 84) some malicious satire.
----Symmachus joins with Themistius in praising the clemency of Valens
dic victoriae moderatus est, quasi contra se nemo pugnavit. Symm. Orat.
p. 12.--M.]

Such indeed are the common and natural fruits of despotism and
rebellion. But the inquisition into the crime of magic, [42a] which,
under the reign of the two brothers, was so rigorously prosecuted both
at Rome and Antioch, was interpreted as the fatal symptom, either of the
displeasure of Heaven, or of the depravity of mankind. [43] Let us
not hesitate to indulge a liberal pride, that, in the present age,
the enlightened part of Europe has abolished [44] a cruel and odious
prejudice, which reigned in every climate of the globe, and adhered to
every system of religious opinions. [45] The nations, and the sects, of
the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence,
the reality of that infernal art, [46] which was able to control the
eternal order of the planets, and the voluntary operations of the human
mind. They dreaded the mysterious power of spells and incantations,
of potent herbs, and execrable rites;