27. Notwithstanding the gross errors of Jornandes, who
confounds the Italian wars of Alaric (c. 29), his date of
the consulship of Stilicho and Aurelian (A.D. 400) is firm
and respectable. It is certain from Claudian (Tillemont,
Hist. des Emp. tom. v. p. 804), that the battle of Pollentia
was fought A.D. 403; but we cannot easily fill the interval.