norant; yet he narrowly
escaped a sentence of death, and was banished into the remote parts
of Mauritania, (Philostorg. l. ix. c. 5, 8, and Godefroy's Dissert. p.
369-378.)]

[Footnote 36a: It may be suspected, from a fragment of Eunapius, that
the heathen and philosophic party espoused the cause of Procopius.
Heraclius, the Cynic, a man who had been honored by a philosophic
controversy with Julian, striking the ground with his staff, incited him
to courage with the line of Homer Eunapius. Mai, p. 207 or in Niebuhr's
edition, p. 73.--M.]

[Footnote 37: Hormisdae maturo juveni Hormisdae regalis illius filio,
potestatem Proconsulis detulit; et civilia, more veterum, et bella,
recturo. Ammian. xxvi. 8. The Persian prince escaped with honor
and safety, and was afterwards (A. D. 380) restored to the same
extraordinary office of proconsul of Bithynia, (Tillemont, Hist. des
Empereurs, tom. v. p. 204) I am ignorant whether the race of Sassan was
propagated. I find (A. D. 514) a pope Hormisdas; but he was a native of
Frusino, in Italy, (Pagi Brev. Pontific. tom. i. p. 247)]

[Footnote 38: The infant rebel was afterwards the wife of the emperor
Gratian but she died young, and childless. See Ducange, Fam. Byzantin.
p. 48, 59.]

[Footnote 39: Sequimini culminis summi prosapiam, was the language of
Procopius, who affected to despise the obscure birth, and fortuitous
election of the upstart Pannonian. Ammian. xxvi. 7.]

In the mean while Valentinian was alarmed and perplexed by the doubtful
intelligence of the revolt of the East. [39a] The difficulties of a
German was forced him to confine his immediate care to the safety of
his own dominions; and, as every channel of communication was stopped or
corrupted, he listened, with doubtful anxiety, to the rumors which
were industriously spread, that the defeat and death of Valens had left
Procopius sole master of the Eastern provinces. Valens was not dead: but
on the news of the rebellion, which he received at Caesarea, he basely
despaired of his life and fortune; proposed to negotiate with the
usurper, and discovered his secret inclination to abdicate the Imperial
purple. The timid monarch was saved from disgrace and ruin by the
firmness of his ministers, and their abilities soon decided in his favor
the event of the civil war. In a season of tranquillity, Sallust
had resigned without a murmur; but as soon as the public safety was
attacked, he ambitiously solicited the preeminence o