[63] Galerius Maximianus, who reconnoitred in person the camp of the
king of Persia.

[64] The word is derived from +klibanon+, an oven, and seems to
mean entirely clothed in iron.

[65] Valeria was a division of Pannonia, so called from Valeria, the
daughter of Diocletian, and the wife of Galerius.

[66] Troops named from the fashion of their arms; the Cornuti having
projections like horns on their helmets, the Braccati wearing drawers.

[67] The testudo was properly applied to the manner in which they locked
their shields over their heads while advancing to storm a walled town.

[68] The Mirmillo was a gladiator opposed to a Retiarius, protecting
himself by his oblong shield against the net of the latter.

[69] The text is mutilated here, as in many other passages similarly
marked.

BOOK XVII.

ARGUMENT.

I. Julian crosses the Rhine and plunders and burns the towns of the
Allemanni, repairs the fortress of Trajan, and grants the
barbarians a truce for ten months.--II. He hems in six hundred
Franks who are devastating the second Germania, and starves them
into surrender.--III. He endeavours to relieve the Gauls from some
of the tribute which weighs them down.--IV. By order of the Emperor
Constantius an obelisk is erected at Rome in the Circus
Maximus;--some observations on obelisks and on hieroglyphics.--V.
Constantius and Sapor, king of the Persians, by means of
ambassadors and letters, enter into a vain negotiation for
peace.--VI. The Nethargi, an Allemanni tribe, are defeated in the
Tyrol, which they were laying waste.--VII. Nicomedia is destroyed
by an earthquake; some observations on earthquakes--VIII. Julian
receives the surrender of the Salii, a Frankish tribe. He defeats
one body of the Chamavi, takes another body prisoners, and grants
peace to the rest.--IX. He repairs three forts on the Meuse that
had been destroyed by the barbarians. His soldiers suffer from
want, and become discontented and reproachful.--X. Surmarius and
Hortarius, kings of the Allemanni, surrender their prisoners and
obtain peace from Julian.--XI. Julian, after his successes in Gaul,
is disparaged at the court of Constantius by enviers of his fame,
and is spoken of as inactive and cowardly.--XII. The Emperor
Constantius compels the Sarmatians to give hostage, and to restore
their prisoners; and imposes