16. '**' without a trial, is the strong and most probably
the just expression of Suidas. The elder Victor, who wrote
under the next reign, speaks with becoming caution. "Natu
grandior, incertum qua causa, patris judicio occidisset."
[De Caesar. c. 41.] If we consult the succeeding writers,
Eutropius, the younger Victor, Orosius,Jerom, Zosimus,
Philostorgius, and Gregory of Tours, their knowledge will
appear gradually to increase as their means of information
must have diminished, a circumstance which frequently occurs
in historical disquisition.