93. He carried his insolence so far as to declare that he
should mutilate Honorius before he sent him into exile. But
this assertion of Zosimus [1. vi. c. 8] is destroyed by the
more impartial testimony of Olympiodorus, who attributes the
ungenerous proposal (which was absolutely rejected by
Attalus) to the baseness and perhaps the treachery of
Jovius.