8. Deserta Valentinae urbis rura Alanis partienda traduntur.
Prosper. Tyronis Chron. in Historiens de France, tom. i. p.
639. A few lines afterwards, Prosper observes that lands in
the 'ulterior' Gaul were assigned to the Alani. Without
admitting the correction of Dubos (tom. i. p. 300), the
reasonable supposition of two colonies or garrisons of Alani
will confirm his arguments and remove his objections.