The merit of Ambrose was applauded by the conqueror, who secured the attachment of the people by his alliance with the church; and the clemency of Theodosius is ascribed to the humane intercession of the archbishop of Milan.

[121] [Footnote 116: Claudian (in iv.Cons.Honor.77, &c.) contrasts the military plans of the two usurpers:-- ....

Novitas audere priorem Suadebat; cautumque dabant exempla sequentem.
Hic nova moliri praeceps: hic quaerere tuta Providus.

Hic fusis; colectis viribus ille.
Hic vagus excurrens; hic claustra reductus Dissimiles, sed morte pares......] [Footnote 117: The Frigidus, a small, though memorable, stream in the country of Goretz, now called the Vipao, falls into the Sontius, or Lisonzo, above Aquileia, some miles from the Adriatic.

See D'Anville's ancient and modern maps, and the Italia Antiqua of Cluverius, (tom.