[45] In one of the lost books of this history.

[46] The Nymphaeum was a temple sacred to the Nymphs, deriving its name
of Septemzodium, or Septizonium (which it shared with more than one
other building at Rome), from the seven rows of pillars, one above the
other, and each row lessening both in circuit and in height, with which
the exterior was embellished. Another temple of this kind was built by
Septimius Severus.

[47] Cologne.

[48] This story of the Phocaeenses is told by Herodotus, i. 166, and
alluded to by Horace, Epod. xv. 10.

[49] The Eubages, or +Ouateis+, as Strabo calls them, appear to
have been a tribe of priests.

[50] The Cottian Alps are Mont Genevre. It is unnecessary to point out
how Ammianus mistakes the true bearing of these frontiers of Gaul.

[51] Briancon.

[52] The Graiae Alps are the Little St. Bernard; and it was over them
that Hannibal really passed, as has been conclusively proved by Dr. J.A.
Cramer.

[53] From the god Pen, or Peninus, Liv. xxi. 38. The Alpes Peninae are
the Great St. Bernard.

[54] Compare Livy's account of Hannibal's march, from which, wholly
erroneous as it is, this description seems to have been taken; not that
even Livy has made such a gross mistake about the Druentia, or Durance,
which falls into the Rhone.

[55] Caesar's account of his expedition begins with the statement that
"Gaul is divided into three provinces."

[56] Chalons sur Marne.

[57] Chalons sur Saone.

[58] Ammianus refers to Plautus, Epidicus, Act. I., sc. i., line 10:--

_Thesprio._ I am less of a pilferer now than formerly.

_Ep._ How so?

_Thes._ I rob openly.

BOOK XVI.

ARGUMENT.

I. A panegyric of Julian the Caesar.--II. Julian attacks and defeats
the Allemanni.--III. He recovers Cologne, which had been taken by
the Franks, and concludes a peace with the king of the Franks.--IV.
He is besieged in the city of Sens by the Allemanni.--V. His
virtues--VI. The prosecution and acquittal of Arbetio.--VII. The
Caesar Julian is defended before the emperor by his chamberlain
Eutherius against the accusations of Marcellus.--VIII. Calumnies
are rife in the camp of the Emperor Constantius, and the courtiers
are rapacious.--IX. The question of peace with the
Persians.--X.--The triumphal entry of Constantius into Rome.--XI.
Julian attacks the Allemanni in the islands of the Rhine in which
they had taken r