48. Claudian's peroration is strong and elegant; but the
identity of the Cimbric and Gothic fields must be understood
(like Virgil's Philippi, Georgic i. 490) according to the
loose geography of a poet. Vercellae and Pollentia are sixty
miles from each other; and the latitude is still greater if
the Cimbri were defeated in the wide and barren plain of
Verona (Maffei, Verona Illustrata, p. i. p. 54-62).