46. The Gothic and Sarmatian wars are related in so broken
and imperfect a manner, that I have been obliged to compare
the following writers, who mutually supply, correct, and
illustrate each other. Those who will take the same trouble
may acquire a right of criticising my narrative. Ammianus,
1. xvii. c. 12. Anonym. Valesian. p. 715. Eutropius, x. 7
[4]. Sextus Rufus de Provinciis, c. 26. Julian, Orat. i. p.
9, and Spanheim, Comment. p. 94. Hieronym. in Chron. Euseb.
in Vit. Constantin. l. iv. c. 6. Socrates, l. i. c. 18.
Sozomen, l. i. c. 8. Zosimus, l. ii. [c. 21] p. x o8.
Jornandes de Reb. Get-icis, c. 22. Isidorus in Chron. p.
709; in Hist. Gothorum Grotii. Constantin. Porphyrogenitus
de Administrat. Imperii, c. 53, p. 208, edit. Meursii [p.
144 sqq. ed. Paris; vol. iii. p. 244 sqq. ed. Bonn].