17. Vopiscus in Hist. August. p. 230. [Tacit. c. 13.]
Zosimus, l. i. [c. 63] p. 57. Zonaras, 1. xii. [c. 28] p.
637 [ed. Paris; p. 608, ed. Bonn]. Two passages in the Life
of Probus (p. 236, 238 [Vopisc. Probus, c. 8 and 12])
convince me that these Scythian invaders of Pontus were
Alani. If we may believe Zosimus (1. i. [c. 64] p. 58),
Florianus pursued them as far as the Cimmerian Bosphorus.
But he had scarcely time for so long and difficult an
expedition.