ce not a word could be adduced to justify any imputation of such
treason.

5. At this time the trumpet as it were gave signal for war throughout
the whole Roman world; and the barbarian tribes on our frontier were
moved to make incursion on those territories which lay nearest to them.
The Allemanni laid waste Gaul and Rhaetia at the same time. The
Sarmatians and Quadi ravaged Pannonia. The Picts, Scots, Saxons, and
Atacotti harassed the Britons with incessant invasions; the Austoriani
and other Moorish tribes attacked Africa with more than usual violence.
Predatory bands of the Goths plundered Thrace.

6. The king of the Persians poured troops into Armenia, exerting all his
power to reduce that people again into subjection to his authority;
without any just cause, arguing, that after the death of Julian, with
whom he had made a treaty of peace, there was nothing that ought to
hinder him from recovering those lands which he could prove to have
belonged in former times to his ancestors.

V.

A.D. 365.

Sec. 1. So after the winter had passed off quietly, the two emperors in
perfect harmony, one having been formally elected, and the other having
been admitted to share that honour, though chiefly in appearance, having
traversed Thrace, arrived at Nissa, where in the suburb which is known
as Mediana, and is three miles from the city, they divided the counts
between them as if they were going to separate.

2. To the share of Valentinian, by whose will everything was settled,
there fell Jovinus, who had lately been promoted by Julian to be the
commander of the forces in Gaul, and Dagalaiphus, on whom Jovian had
conferred a similar rank; while Victor was appointed to follow Valens to
the east: and he also had originally been promoted by the decision of
Julian; and to him was given Ariathaeus as a colleague. For Lupicinus,
who in like manner had sometime before been appointed by Jovian to
command the cavalry, was defending the eastern districts.

3. At the same time Equitius received the command of the army of
Illyricum, with the rank not of general but of count; and Serenianus,
who sometime before had retired from the service, now, being a citizen
of Pannonia, returned to it, and joined Valens as commander of the
cohort of his guards. This was the way in which these affairs were
settled, and in which the troops were divided.

4. After this, when the two brothers entered Sirmium, they divided their
courts also, and Va