26/30 Within the limits of Africa, Gildo, the Moor, maintained a proud and dangerous independence; and the minister of Constantinople asserted his equal reign over the emperor, and the empire, of the East. The youth and private life of the hero are vaguely expressed in the poem on his first consulship, 35-140.] [Footnote 18: Vandalorum, imbellis, avarae, perfidae, et dolosae, gentis, genere editus. Orosius, l.vii.c.38.Jerom (tom.i. 93) call him a Semi-Barbarian.] [Footnote 19: Claudian, in an imperfect poem, has drawn a fair, perhaps a flattering, portrait of Serena. |