The Iberian, the Arab, and the Goth, who gazed on each other with mutual astonishment, were enlisted in the service of the same prince; [1141] and the renowned Alaric acquired, in the school of Theodosius, the knowledge of the art of war, which he afterwards so fatally exerted for the destruction of Rome.

[115] [Footnote 109: Quem sibi Germanus famulam delegerat exul, is the contemptuous expression of Claudian, (iv.Cons.Hon.

74.) Eugenius professed Christianity; but his secret attachment to Paganism (Sozomen, l.vii.c.22, Philostorg.l.xi.c.

2) is probable in a grammarian, and would secure the friendship of Zosimus, (l.iv.p.276, 277.)] [Footnote 110: Zosimus (l.iv.p.

278) mentions this embassy; but he is diverted by another story from relating the event.] [Footnote 111: Zosim.l.iv.p.277.