of great size were driven on shore by the violence of
the wind, and cast upon the housetops, as happened at Alexandria; and
some were even driven two miles inland, of which we ourselves saw one in
Laconia, near the town of Mothone, which was lying and rotting where it
had been driven.

[157] Master of the Offices--v. Bohn's 'Gibbon,' ii., 223.

[158] The young king's name was Eropus, v. Justin, vii. 122.

[159] Called also _Trimontium_, from standing on three hills; the modern
name is _Philippopoli_. See Smith's 'Anc. Geography,' p. 333.

BOOK XXVII.

ARGUMENT.

I. The Allemanni having defeated the Romans, put the counts
Charietto and Severianus to death.--II. Jovinus, the commander of
the cavalry in Gaul, surprises and routs two divisions of the
Allemanni; defeats a third army in the country of the Catalauni,
the enemy losing six thousand killed and four thousand
wounded.--III. About the three prefects of the city, Symmachus,
Lampadius, and Juventius--The quarrels of Damasus and Ursinus about
the bishopric of Rome.--IV. The people and the six provinces of
Thrace are described, and the chief cities in each province.--V.
The emperor Valens attacks the Goths, who had sent Procopius'
auxiliary troops to be employed against him, and after three years
makes peace with them.--VI. Valentinian, with the consent of the
army, makes his son Gratian emperor; and, after investing the boy
with the purple, exhorts him to behave bravely, and recommends him
to the soldiers.--VII. The passionate temper, ferocity, and cruelty
of the emperor Valentinian.--VIII. Count Theodosius defeats the
Picts, Attacotti, and Scots, who were ravaging Britain with
impunity, after having slain the duke and count of that province,
and makes them restore their plunder.--IX. The Moorish tribes
ravage Africa--Valens checks the predatory incursions of the
Isaurians--Concerning the office of city prefect.--X. The emperor
Valentinian crosses the Rhine, and in a battle, attended with heavy
loss to both sides, defeats and routs the Allemanni, who had taken
refuge in their highest mountains.--XI. On the high family, wealth,
dignity, and character of Probus.--XII. The Romans and Persians
quarrel about the possession of Armenia and Iberia.

I.

A.D. 367.

Sec. 1. While these events which we have related were taking pla