g of tragic interest, the
following occurrence also took place after the curtain had fallen.
Romanus went to court, taking with him Caecilius, with the intent to
accuse the judges as having been unduly biassed in favour of the
province; and being received graciously by Merobaudes, he demanded that
some more necessary witnesses should be summoned. And when they had
come to Milan, and had shown by proofs which seemed correct, though
these were false, that they had been falsely accused, they were
acquitted, and returned home. Valentinian was still alive, when after
these events which we have related, Remigius also retired from public
life, and afterwards hanged himself, as we shall relate in the proper
place.

[165] See the Iliad, XVIII. 1. 645, where Ajax prays:--

"Lord of earth and air,
O King! O Father, hear my humble prayer!
Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore;
Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more!
If Greece must perish, we thy will obey,
But let us perish in the face of day."

POPE'S _Trans._, 1. 727, etc.

[166] See Gibbon, vol. III. p. 97 (Bohn's edition).

[167] This is an allusion to the story of Castor and Pollux bringing
news of the victory gained at the battle of Regillus to Domitius (B.C.
496). The legend adds that they stroked his black beard, which
immediately became red; from which he and his posterity derived the
surname of AEnobarbus.--See Dion. Hal. vi. 13.

[168] Marius Maximus was an author who wrote an account of the lives of
the Caesars.

[169] Sec. 20 is mutilated, so that no sense can be extracted from the
remainder of it.

[170] Two brothers who had been colleagues in several important offices,
and who were at last put to death together by Commodus.

[171] The end of Sec. 22 is also mutilated.

[172] This passage, again, seems hopelessly mutilated.

[173] Cicero, de Amicitia, c. xxi.

[174] These are not in reality noble names, but names derived from low
occupations. Trulla is a dish; Salsula, belonging to pickles, &c.

[175] Compare Juvenal's description of the circumspect in his time:--

"Atque duas tantum resarexius optat
Panem et Circenses."

BOOK XXIX.

ARGUMENT.

I. Theodorus, the secretary, aims at the imperial authority, and
being accused of treason before Valens at Antioch, and convicted,
is executed, with many of his accomplices.--II. In the East many
persons are informed against as guilty of po