, where it was received with great joy by all who
saw it.

43. After this our noble general inflicted most severe punishment, as
justice required, on the whole nation of the Isaflenses, which had
resisted till it was thus subdued in war. And he burnt alive one of the
most influential of the citizens, named Evasius, and his son Florus, and
several others, who were convicted on undeniable evidence of having
aided the great disturber of tranquillity by their secret counsels.

44. From thence Theodosius proceeded into the interior, and with great
resolution attacked the tribe of the Jubileni, to which he heard that
Nubel, the father of Firmus, belonged; but presently he halted, being
checked by the height of the mountains, and their winding defiles. And
though he had once attacked the enemy, and opened himself a further road
by slaying a great number of them, still, fearing the high precipices as
places pre-eminently adapted for ambuscades, he withdrew, and led back
his army in safety to a fortress called Audiense, where the Jesalenses,
a warlike tribe, came over to him, voluntarily promising to furnish him
with reinforcements and provisions.

45. Our noble general, exulting in this and similarly glorious
achievements, now made the greatest efforts to overtake the original
disturber of tranquillity himself, and therefore having halted for some
time near a fortress named Medianum, he planned various schemes through
which he hoped to procure that Firmus should be given up to him.

46. And while he was directing anxious thoughts and deep sagacity to
this object, he heard that he had again gone back to the Isaflenses; on
which, as before, without any delay, he marched against them with all
possible speed. Their king, whose name was Igmazen, a man of great
reputation in that country, and celebrated also for his riches, advanced
with boldness to meet him, and addressed him thus, "To what country do
you belong, and with what object have you come hither? Answer me."
Theodosius, with firm mind and stern looks, replied, "I am a lieutenant
of Valentinian, the master of the whole world, sent hither to destroy a
murderous robber; and unless you at once surrender him, as the
invincible emperor has commanded, you also, and the nation of which you
are king, will be entirely destroyed." Igmazen, on receiving this
answer, heaped a number of insulting epithets on our general, and then
retired full of rage and indignation.

47. And the ne