6. Ammianus (xxxi. 10) and the younger Victor [Epit. c. 47]
acknowledge the virtues of Gratian; and accuse, or rather
lament, his degenerate taste. The odious parallel of
Commodus is saved by "licet incruentus;" and perhaps
Philostorgius (1. x. c. 10 [5], and Godefroy, p. 412) had
guarded, with some similar reserve, the comparison of Nero.