20/30 The subtle praefect, whose life had been spent in the intrigues of the palace, opposed, with equal arms, the artful measures of the eunuch Eutropius; but the timid soul of Rufinus was astonished by the hostile approach of a more formidable rival, of the great Stilicho, the general, or rather the master, of the empire of the West. [16] [Footnote 13: Zosimus (l.iv.p. 243) praises the valor, prudence, and integrity of Bauto the Frank. |