hose shades were still wandering about
unavenged. For Justice, though a late, is yet a scrupulous and unerring
discriminator between right and wrong.

10. Remigius, whom we have already spoken of as favouring Count Romanus,
who had laid waste these provinces after Leo had succeeded him as master
of the offices, retired from office and from public life, and devoted
himself to rural pursuits in his own native district near Mayence.

11. And while he was living there in security, Maximin, the prefect of
the praetorium, despising him because of his return to a tranquil life,
as he was accustomed to attack everything like a terrible pestilence,
set to work to do him injury by every means in his power. And, in order
to hunt out all his secrets, he seized Caesarius who had formerly been a
servant of his, and afterwards had become a secretary of the emperor,
and put him to the question, torturing him with great severity to learn
from him what Remigius had done, and how much he had received to induce
him to countenance the wicked actions of Romanus.

12. But when Remigius heard this in his retreat, to which, as has been
said, he had retired; being oppressed by the consciousness of his acts,
or perhaps letting the dread of false accusation overpower his reason,
he hanged himself.

III.

Sec. 1. The next year Gratian took Equitius as his colleague in the
consulship; and Valentinian, after desolating some cantons of the
Allemanni, was building a fortress near Basle, which the natives of the
country call Robur, when a report was brought to him from the prefect
Probus with an account of the disasters which had taken place in
Illyricum.

2. He read them with a very careful examination, as became a prudent
general; and then being filled with anxious thoughts, he sent his
secretary, Paternianus, to that country, to inquire minutely into the
whole details of the affair. And, as he soon received from him a true
account of all that had taken place, he prepared to repair thither
himself with all speed, in order to overwhelm with the first crash of
his arms (such was his idea) the barbarians who had dared to pollute our
frontier.

3. But, because, as it was now the end of autumn, there were many
serious difficulties in the way, all the nobles in the palace pressed
him earnestly to allow the time between that and the beginning of spring
to be spent in embassies and conferences. Reminding him, in the first
place, that the roads were