[82] The famished Germans, who escaped the fury of the auxiliaries, were sold as slaves, at the contemptible price of as many single pieces of gold; but the difference of food and climate swept away great numbers of those unhappy strangers; and it was observed, that the inhuman purchasers, instead of reaping the fruits of their labor were soon obliged to provide the expense of their interment Stilicho informed the emperor and the senate of his success; and deserved, a second time, the glorious title of Deliverer of Italy.

[83] [Footnote 76: Paulinus (in Vit.

Ambros c.

50) relates this story, which he received from the mouth of Pansophia herself, a religious matron of Florence.

Yet the archbishop soon ceased to take an active part in the business of the world, and never became a popular saint.] [Footnote 77: Augustin de Civitat.