23/32 1.] [Footnote 15: Zosim.l.ii.p.103. 28.] [Footnote 16: The elder Victor, who wrote under the next reign, speaks with becoming caution. "Natu grandior incertum qua causa, patris judicio occidisset." If we consult the succeeding writers, Eutropius, the younger Victor, Orosius, Jerom, Zosimus, Philostorgius, and Gregory of Tours, their knowledge will appear gradually to increase, as their means of information must have diminished--a circumstance which frequently occurs in historical disquisition.] [Footnote 17: Ammianus (l.xiv.c. |