That resolute officer executed, without remorse, the orders or the intention of the usurper.

Gratian, as he rose from supper, was delivered into the hands of the assassin: and his body was denied to the pious and pressing entreaties of his brother Valentinian.

[14] The death of the emperor was followed by that of his powerful general Mellobaudes, the king of the Franks; who maintained, to the last moment of his life, the ambiguous reputation, which is the just recompense of obscure and subtle policy.
[15] These executions might be necessary to the public safety: but the successful usurper, whose power was acknowledged by all the provinces of the West, had the merit, and the satisfaction, of boasting, that, except those who had perished by the chance of war, his triumph was not stained by the blood of the Romans.

[16] [Footnote 13: Archbishop Usher (Antiquat.Britan.Eccles.p.107, 108) has diligently collected the legends of the island, and the continent.
The whole emigration consisted of 30,000 soldiers, and 100,000 plebeians, who settled in Bretagne.

Their destined brides, St.Ursula with 11,000 noble, and 60,000 plebeian, virgins, mistook their way; landed at Cologne, and were all most cruelly murdered by the Huns.