39. The narrative of Zosimus, who actually leads Gainas
beyond the Danube, must be corrected by the testimony of
Socrates [1. vi. c. 6] and Sozomen [1. viii. c. 4], that he
was killed in Thrace, and by the precise and authentic dates
of the Alexandrian or Paschal Chronicle, p. 307 [ed. Paris;
tom. i. p. 567, ed. Bonn]. The naval victory of the
Hellespont is fixed to the month Apellaeus, the tenth of the
calends of January (December 23); the head of Gainas was
brought to Constantinople the third of the nones of January
(January 3), in the month Audynaeus.