nto execution drew near,
the duke, who had received from some trustworthy quarter information of
what was going on, being always a man inclined to a bold line of
conduct, and resolutely bent on chastising crimes when detected, seized
Valentine with a few of his accomplices who were most deeply implicated,
and handed them over to the general Dulcitius to be put to death. But at
the same time conjecturing the future, through that knowledge of the
soldiers in which he surpassed other men, he forbade the institution of
any examination into the conspiracy generally, lest if the fear of such
an investigation should affect many, fresh troubles might revive in the
province.

7. After this he turned his attention to make many necessary amendments,
feeling wholly free from any danger in such attempts, since it was plain
that all his enterprises were attended by a propitious fortune. So he
restored cities and fortresses, as we have already mentioned, and
established stations and outposts on our frontiers; and he so completely
recovered the province which had yielded subjection to the enemy, that
through his agency it was again brought under the authority of its
legitimate ruler, and from that time forth was called Valentia, by
desire of the emperor, as a memorial of his success.

8. The Areans, a class of men instituted in former times, and of whom we
have already made some mention in recording the acts of Constans, had
now gradually fallen into bad practices, for which he removed them from
their stations; in fact they had been undeniably convicted of yielding
to the temptation of the great rewards which were given and promised to
them, so as to have continually betrayed to the barbarians what was done
among us. For their business was to traverse vast districts, and report
to our generals the warlike movements of the neighbouring nations.

9. In this manner the affairs which I have already mentioned, and others
like them, having been settled, he was summoned to the court, and
leaving the provinces in a state of exultation, like another Furius
Camillus or Papirius Cursor, he was celebrated everywhere for his
numerous and important victories. He was accompanied by a large crowd of
well-wishers to the coast, and crossing over with a fair wind, arrived
at the emperor's camp, where he was received with joy and high praise,
and appointed to succeed Valens Jovinus, who was commander of the
cavalry.

IV.

Sec. 1. I have thus made