ue kronion.+--Il. +b+.
vi. 70.

As also does Pindar, Ol. vii. 63.

[73] From +klino+, to lay down.

[74] From +chasma+, a chasm, derived from +chaino+, to
gape.

[75] This is a tale told by Plato in the Timaeus (which is believed to
have no foundation).

[76] The destruction of Helice is related in Diodorus Sic. xiv. 48; cf.
Ov. Met. xv. 290.

[77] The lake Ciminus was near Centumcellae, cf. Virg. AEn. vii. 697. The
town of Saccumum is not mentioned by any other writer.

[78] From +mykao+, to roar like a bull.

[79] Toxandria was in Belgium, on the Scheldt.

[80] The Chamavi were a tribe at the mouth of the Rhine.

[81] Tages was an Etruscan, the son, it is said, of a genius, Jovialis,
and grandson of Jupiter, who rose out of the ground as a man named
Tarchon was ploughing near Tarquinii, and instructed the auspices in
divination. Cf. Cic. Div. ii. 23.

[82] Carthage and Numantia.

[83] The Quadi occupied a part of Hungary.

[84] The Victohali were a tribe of Goths.

[85] Szoeni, called by Ammianus Bregetio, is near Cormorn.

[86] The Theiss.

[87] The Anicenses and Picenses were Dacian tribes.

[88] The Taifali were a tribe of the Western Goths.

BOOK XVIII.

ARGUMENT.

I. The Caesar Julian consults the welfare of the Gauls, and provides
for the general observance of justice.--II. He repairs the walls of
the castles on the Rhine which he had recovered; crosses the Rhine,
and having conquered those of the Alemanni who remained hostile, he
compels their kings to sue for peace, and to restore their
prisoners.--III. Why Barbatio, the commander of the infantry, and
his wife, were beheaded by command of Constantius.--IV. Sapor, king
of Persia, prepares to attack the Romans with all his power.--V.
Antoninus, the protector, deserts to Sapor, with all his men; and
increases his eagerness to engage in war with the Romans.--VI.
Ursicinus, the commander of the legions, being summoned from the
East, when he had reached Thrace was sent back to Mesopotamia, and
having arrived there he hears from Marcellinus of Sapor's
approach.--VII. Sapor, with the kings of the Chionitae and Albani,
invades Mesopotamia--The Romans of their own accord lay waste their
lands with fire; compelled the countrymen to come into the towns,
and fortify the western bank of the Euphrates with castles and
garrisons.--VIII. Seven hundred I