4;
sends Vadomarius to besiege Nicaea, and proceeds himself to
Nicomedia, 425;
his cruelty, 433;
marches against the Goths, 445;
attacks the Gruthungi, 446;
returns to Constantinople, 447;
his suspicious character, 507;
reply to Sapor, 549;
omens of his death, 576;
receives an embassy from the Goths, 585;
sends Victor into Persia, 594;
leaves Antioch for Constantinople, 606;
marches to Hadrianople, 609;
his death, 614;
his vices, 616

Valentia (Valence), 32, 79

---- a province of Britain, 485

Valentine, a Pannonian, 484, 568

Valentinian, chosen emperor, 406;
his conduct, 407;
saluted as Augustus, 409;
his speech, 409;
creates his brother Valens tribune and master of the horse, 412;
arrives at Constantinople, 412;
takes as his colleague in the imperial dignity his brother Valens, 413;
his cruelty, 433;
invests his son Gratian with the imperial dignity, 448;
sends Theodosius to Britain, 453;
marches against the Allemanni and gains a victory, 458;
defeats the Goths at Solicinium, and returns to Treves, 461;
fortifies the banks of the Rhine, 480;
makes overtures of peace to the Burgundians, 495;
his cruelties, 521;
makes peace with Macrianus, 552;
marches against the Quadi, 562;
his dream, 563;
his death, 564;
review of his reign, 567;
his character, 569-573

Valentinian II. chosen emperor, 575

Valentinus, a tribune, 166

Valeria, a province of Pannonia, so named after the daughter of
Diocletian, 204, 468

Valerian, officer of the domestics, 461

Valerianus, master of the horse, 615

Valerius Publicola, 17

Vangiones (Worms), 78

Vardanes, the founder of Ctesiphon, 334

Varronianus, the father of Jovian, 388

---- the son of Jovian, 403

Vasatae (Bazas), 79

Vatrachites, a river of Persia, 337

Vecturiones, a nation of the Picts, 453

Velia, a town in Lucania, 74

Ventidius, lieutenant of Antony, 328

Venustus, 317, 473

Verissimus, count, 92

Verrinianus, 60, 181

Vertae, allies of the Persians at the siege of Amida, 187, 193

Vestralpus, a king of the Allemanni, 107, 164

Veteranio, 46

Vetranio, captain of the Zianni, 377

Victa, a town in Mesopotamia, 228

Victohali, a Gothic tribe, 150

Victor Aurelius, the historian, 259

Victor, a Sarmatian, 347, 356, 366, 445, 609

---- a tribune given as a hostage to the Persians, 394

Victorinus, 473

Viderichus, son of Vithimiris, 583

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