ede related by
Homer, Il. viii.

[106] Ammianus is wrong here; it was only the Thebans who were called
+Spartoi+, from +speiro+, to sow, because of the fable of
the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus; the Athenians, who claimed to be
earthborn, not called +Spartoi+, but +autochthones+.

[107] A quotation from the description of the foot-race in Virgil, AEn.
v. 320.

[108] Salankemen, in Hungary.

BOOK XX.

ARGUMENT.

I. Lupicinus is sent as commander-in-chief into Britain with an
army to check the incursions of the Picts and Scots.--II.
Ursicinus, commander of the infantry, is attacked by calumnies, and
dismissed.--III. An eclipse of the sun--A discussion on the two
suns, and on the causes of solar and lunar eclipses, and the
various changes and shapes of the moon.--IV. The Caesar Julian,
against his will, is saluted as emperor at Paris, where he was
wintering, by his Gallican soldiers, whom Constantius had ordered
to be taken from him, and sent to the East to act against the
Persians.--V. He harangues his soldiers.--VI. Singara is besieged
and taken by Sapor: the citizens, with the auxiliary cavalry and
two legions in garrison, are carried off to Persia--The town is
razed to the ground.--VII. Sapor storms the town of Bezabde, which
is defended by three legions; repairs it, and places in it a
garrison and magazines; he also attacks the fortress of Victa,
without success.--VIII. Julian writes to Constantius to inform him
of what had taken place at Paris.--IX. Constantius desires Julian
to be content with the title of Caesar; but the Gallican legions
unanimously refuse to allow him to be so.--X. The Emperor Julian
unexpectedly attacks a Frank tribe, known as the Attuarii, on the
other side of the Rhine; slays some, takes others prisoners, and
grants peace to the rest, on their petition.--XI. Constantius
attacks Bezabde with his whole force, but fails--A discussion on
the rainbow.

I.

A.D. 360.

Sec. 1. These were the events which took place in Illyricum and in the
East. But the next year, that of Constantius's tenth and Julian's third
consulship, the affairs of Britain became troubled, in consequence of
the incursions of the savage nations of Picts and Scots, who breaking
the peace to which they had agreed, were plundering the districts on
their borders, and keeping in constant alarm th