lentinian as the chief took Milan, while Valens
retired to Constantinople.

5. Sallust, with the authority of prefect, governed the East, Mamertinus
Italy with Africa and Illyricum, and Germanianus the provinces of Gaul.

6. It was in the cities of Milan and Constantinople that the emperors
first assumed the consular robes. But the whole year was one of heavy
disaster to the Roman state.

7. For the Allemanni burst through the limits of Germany, and the cause
of their unusual ferocity was this. They had sent ambassadors to the
court, and according to custom they were entitled to regular fixed
presents, but received gifts of inferior value; which, in great
indignation, they threw away as utterly beneath them. For this they were
roughly treated by Ursatius, a man of a passionate and cruel temper, who
at that time was master of the offices; and when they returned and
related, with considerable exaggeration, how they had been treated, they
roused the anger of their savage countrymen as if they had been despised
and insulted in their persons.

8. About the same time, or not much later, Procopius attempted a
revolution in the east; and both these occurrences were announced to
Valentinian on the same day, the 1st of November, as he was on the point
of making his entry into Paris.

9. He instantly sent Dagalaiphus to make head against the Allemanni,
who, when they had laid waste the land nearest to them, had departed to
a distance without bloodshed. But with respect to the measures necessary
to crush the attempt of Procopius before it gained any strength, he was
greatly perplexed, being made especially anxious by his ignorance
whether Valens were alive or dead, that Procopius thus attempted to make
himself master of the empire.

10. For Equitius, as soon as he heard the account of the tribune
Antonius, who was in command of the army in the interior of Dacia,
before he was able to ascertain the real truth of everything, brought
the emperor a plain statement of what had taken place.

11. On this Valentinian promoted Equitius to the command of a division,
and resolved on retiring to Illyricum to prevent a rebel who was already
formidable from overrunning Thrace and then carrying an hostile invasion
into Pannonia. For he was greatly terrified by recollecting recent
events, considering how, not long before, Julian, despising an emperor
who had been invariably successful in every civil war, before he was
expected or looked fo