and winds round the monuments of the ancient gods.

6. Then quitting Tarsus, he reached by forced marches Tyana, a town of
Cappadocia, where Procopius the secretary and Memoridus the tribune met
him on their return, and related to him all that occurred; beginning, as
the order of events required, at the moment when Lucillianus (who had
entered Milan with the tribunes Seniauchus and Valentinian, whom he had
brought with him, as soon as it was known that Malarichus had refused to
accept the post which was offered to him) hastened on with all speed to
Rheims.

7. There, as if it had been a time of profound tranquillity, he went
quite beside the mark, as we say, and while things were still in a very
unsettled state, he most unseasonably devoted his attention to
scrutinizing the accounts of the commissary, who, being conscious of
fraud and guilt, fled to the standards of the soldiers, and pretended
that while Julian was still alive some one of the common people had
attempted a revolution. By this false report the army became so greatly
excited that they put Lucillianus and Seniauchus to death. For
Valentinian, who soon afterwards became emperor, had been concealed by
his host Primitivus in a safe place, overwhelmed with fear and not
knowing which way to flee.

8. This disastrous intelligence was accompanied by one piece of
favourable news,--that the soldiers who had been sent by Jovian were
approaching (men known in the camp as the heads of the classes), who
brought word that the Gallic army had cordially embraced the cause of
Jovian.

9. When this was known, the command of the second class of the Scutarii
was given to Valentinian, who had returned with those men; and
Vitalianus, who had been a soldier of the Heruli, was placed among the
body-guards, and afterwards, when raised to the rank of count, met with
very ill success in Illyricum. And at the same time Arinthaeus was
despatched into Gaul with letters for Jovinus, with an injunction to
maintain his ground and act with resolution and constancy; and he was
further charged to make an example of the author of the disturbance
which had taken place, and to send the ringleaders of the sedition as
prisoners to the court.

10. When these matters had been arranged as seemed most expedient, the
Gallic soldiers obtained an audience of the emperor at Aspuna, a small
town of Galatia, and having been admitted into the council chamber,
after the message which they brought had be