The intelligence of his defeat and death was received with sincere or well-dissembled joy: his son Victor, on whom he had conferred the title of Augustus, died by the order, perhaps by the hand, of the bold Arbogastes; and all the military plans of Theodosius were successfully executed.

When he had thus terminated the civil war, with less difficulty and bloodshed than he might naturally expect, he employed the winter months of his residence at Milan, to restore the state of the afflicted provinces; and early in the spring he made, after the example of Constantine and Constantius, his triumphal entry into the ancient capital of the Roman empire.

[77] [Footnote 76: See Godefroy's Chronology of the Laws, Cod.

Theodos, tom l.p.

cxix.] [Footnote 77: Besides the hints which may be gathered from chronicles and ecclesiastical history, Zosimus (l.iv.p.