e neighbouring nations, and prepared his own army in order, with the
return of fine weather, to overturn all the arrangements which the
Romans had made with a view to their own interests.

[160] Cabillonum is Chalons-sur-Soane, in Burgundy; Catalauni is
Chalons-sur-Marne, in Champagne.

[161] These seem to have been a tribe of the _Batavi_; but some editors
give, as a various reading, _Hastarii_, which may be translated, a
detachment of lancers.

[162] Probably the church of Santa Maria Maggiore; but see note in
Gibbon, ch. xxv. (vol. iii. p. 91, Bohn).

[163] See Iliad, ix. 5:--

+Borees kai zephyros tote Threkethen aeton
Elthont' exopines.+

Thus translated by Pope:--

"As from its cloudy dungeon, issuing forth
A double tempest of the west and north
Swells o'er the sea from Thracia's frozen shore,
Heaps waves on waves, and bids th' AEgean roar."

[164] The contents of the sixty-third book of Livy record that C.
Porcius Cato lost his whole army in a campaign against the Scordisci,
who were a Pannonian tribe; but neither Livy nor any other writer,
except Ammianus, mentions that Cato himself was killed.

BOOK XXVIII.

ARGUMENT.

I. Many persons, even senators and women of senatorial family are
accused at Rome of poisonings, adultery, and debauchery, and are
punished.--II. The Emperor Valentinian fortifies the whole Gallic
bank of the Rhine with forts, castles, and towers; the Allemanni
slay the Romans who are constructing a fortification on the other
side of the Rhine.--The Maratocupreni, who are ravaging Syria, are,
by the command of Valens, destroyed with their children and their
town.--III. Theodosius restores the cities of Britain which had
been laid waste by the barbarians, repairs the fortresses, and
recovers the province of the island which is called Valentia.--IV.
Concerning the administration of Olybrius and Ampelius as prefects
of the city: and concerning the vices of the Roman senate and
people.--V. The Saxons, after a time, are circumvented in Gaul by
the manoeuvres of the Romans. Valentinian having promised to
unite his forces with them, sends the Burgundians to invade
Germany; but they, finding themselves tricked and deceived, put all
their prisoners to the sword, and return home.--VI. The ravages
inflicted in the province of Tripoli, and on the people of Leptis
and OEa, by th