The oppressed subjects of the West, who would have deemed themselves happy in the restoration of their lands, were astonished to receive a sum of money equivalent to their losses; and the liberality of the conqueror supported the aged mother, and educated the orphan daughters, of Maximus.

[80] A character thus accomplished might almost excuse the extravagant supposition of the orator Pacatus; that, if the elder Brutus could be permitted to revisit the earth, the stern republican would abjure, at the feet of Theodosius, his hatred of kings; and ingenuously confess, that such a monarch was the most faithful guardian of the happiness and dignity of the Roman people.

[81] [Footnote 78: Quam promptum laudare principem, tam tutum siluisse de principe, (Pacat.

in Panegyr.Vet.xii.

2.) Latinus Pacatus Drepanius, a native of Gaul, pronounced this oration at Rome, (A.D.