It will be observed that Ammianus here speaks of himself as in
attendance upon Ursicinus.

[18] Maximianus Herculius.

[19] Diocletian.

[20] As we say, Out of the frying-pan into the fire.

[21] The town of Pettau, on the Drave.

[22] A paleness such as overspread the countenance of Adrastus when he
saw his two sons-in-law, Pydeus and Polynices, slain at Thebes. Virgil
speaks of Adrasti pallentis imago, AEn. vi. 480.

[23] Ammianus here confounds Nemesis with Fortuna. Compare Horace's
description of the latter goddess, Lib. i. Od. 34:--

" ... Valet ima summis
Mutare, et insignia attenuat deus
Obscura promens: hinc apicem rapax
Fortuna cum stridore acuto
Sustulit; hic posuisse gaudet."

Or, as it is translated by Dr. Francis:--

"The hand of Jove can crush the proud
Down to the meanness of the crowd:
And raise the lowest in his stead:
But rapid Fortune pulls him down,
And snatches his imperial crown,
To place, not _fix_ it, on another's head."

[24] Near the modern city of Sienna.

[25] See Plutarch's Life of AEmilius, c. 37. The name of the young prince
was Alexander.

[26] Called also Hostilius; cf. Vell. Paterc. ii. 1.

[27] Cf. Liv. ix. c. x.; Cicero de Officiis, iii. 30.

[28] Cf. Val. Max. vi. 3.

[29] Cf. Horace, Od. iv. ult.; Florus, ii. 1. The story of the cruelties
inflicted on Regulus is now, however, generally disbelieved.

[30] The fate of Pompey served also as an instance to Juvenal in his
satire on the vanity of human wishes.

Provida Pompeio diderat Campania febres
Optandas, sed multae urbes et publica vota
Vicerunt; igitur Fortuna ipsius et urbis
Servatum victo caput abstulit.

Sat. X. 283, &c.

[31] Spartacus was the celebrated leader of the slaves in the Servile
War.

BOOK XV.

ARGUMENT.

I. The death of the Caesar Gallus is announced to the emperor.--II.
Ursicinus, the commander of the cavalry in the East; Julian, the
brother of the Caesar Gallus; and Gorgonius, the high chamberlain,
are accused of treason.--III. The adherents and servants of the
Caesar Gallus are punished.--IV. The Allemanni of the district of
Lintz are defeated by the Emperor Constantius with great loss.--V.
Silvanus, a Frank, the commander of the infantry in Gaul, is
saluted as emperor at Cologne; and on the twenty-eighth day of his
reign is destroyed by stratagem.--VI. The friends and adherents