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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XXVII: Civil Wars, Reign Of Theodosius
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Ambrose, who has occasion to exculpate himself, only condemns the death of Vallio, a faithful servant of Gratian, (tom.ii.

epist.
xxiv.p.891, edit.

Benedict.) * Note: Le Beau contests the reading in the chronicle of Prosper upon which this charge rests.

Le Beau, iv.
232 .-- M.

* Note: According to Pacatus, the Count Vallio, who commanded the army, was carried to Chalons to be burnt alive; but Maximus, dreading the imputation of cruelty, caused him to be secretly strangled by his Bretons.


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