46.Jornandes de Rebus Geticis, c. 41, p. 671. The policy of
Aetius and the behaviour of Torismond are extremely natural;
and the patrician according to Gregory of Tours (1. ii. c.
7, p. 163) dismissed the prince of the Franks by suggesting
to him a similar apprehension. The false Idatius
ridiculously pretends that Aetius paid a clandestine
nocturnal visit to the kings of the Huns and of the
Visigoths; from each of whom he obtained a bribe of ten
thousand pieces of gold as the price of an undisturbed
retreat.