149. The Gothic war is described by Ammianus (xxvii. 5),
Zosimus (1. iv. [c. 10] p. 211-214), and Themistius (Orat.
x. p. 129-141) . The orator Themistius was sent from the
senate of Constantinople to congratulate the victorious
emperor; and his servile eloquence compares Valens on the
Danube to Achilles in the Scamander. Jornandes forgets a
war peculiar to the Visi-Goths, and inglorious to the Gothic
name (Mascou's Hist. of the Germans vii. 3):