o, contriving to make their escape,
afterwards, by their humble supplications, obtained the pardon which the
times permitted to be granted to them.

27. Their leader Suggena, who succeeded Romanus, was sent into
Mauritania Sitifensis to establish other garrisons necessary to prevent
that province from being overrun; and he himself, elated by his recent
achievements, marched against the nation of the Musones, who, from a
consciousness of the ravages and murders of which they had been guilty,
had joined the party of Firmus, hoping that he would soon obtain the
chief authority.

28. Having advanced some distance, he found, near the town of Addense,
that a number of tribes, who, though differing from each other in
manners and language, were all animated with one feeling, in fomenting
the outbreaks of terrible wars, being urged on and encouraged by the
hope of great rewards from a sister of Firmus, named Cyria; who being
very rich, and full of feminine resolution, was resolved to make a great
effort to help her brother.

29. Therefore Theodosius, fearing to become involved in a war to which
his forces were unequal, and that if he with his small force (for he had
but three thousand five hundred men) should engage with an immense
multitude, he should lose his whole army, at first hesitating between
the shame of retreating and his wish to fight, gradually fell back a
little; but presently was compelled by the overpowering mass of the
barbarians to retire altogether.

30. The barbarians were exceedingly elated at this event, and pursued
him with great obstinacy.... Being compelled by necessity to fight, he
would have lost all his army and his own life, had not these tumultuous
tribes, the moment they saw a troop of the Mazican auxiliaries, with a
few Roman soldiers in their front, fancied that a numerous division was
advancing to charge them, and in consequence taking to flight, opened to
our men a way of escape which was previously shut against them.

31. Theodosius now drew off his army in safety; and when he had reached
a town called Mazucanum, he found there a number of deserters, some of
whom he burnt alive, and others he mutilated after the fashion of the
archers whose hands had been cut off. He then proceeded towards Tipata,
which he reached in the course of February.

32. There he stayed some time deliberating, like that old delayer,
Fabius, on the circumstances around him, desiring to subdue the enemy,
who was no