44) is far greater than the amplifications of Lucan, (Pharsal.l.vi.

29-63.)] [Footnote 79: The rhetorical expressions of Orosius, "in arido et aspero montis jugo;" "in unum ac parvum verticem," are not very suitable to the encampment of a great army.

But Faesulae, only three miles from Florence, might afford space for the head-quarters of Radagaisus, and would be comprehended within the circuit of the Roman lines.] [Footnote 80: See Zosimus, l.v.p.331, and the Chronicles of Prosper and Marcellinus.] [Footnote 81: Olympiodorus (apud Photium, p.

180) uses an expression which would denote a strict and friendly alliance, and render Stilicho still more criminal.

The paulisper detentus, deinde interfectus, of Orosius, is sufficiently odious.