34. Muratori (Annali d'Italia, tom. ii. p. 294) thinks the
melting of the snows suits better with the months of June or
July, than with that of February. The opinion of a man who
passed his life between the Alps and the Apennines, is
undoubtedly of great weight; yet I observe, 1. That the long
winter, of which Muratori takes advantage, is to be found
only in the Latin version, and not in the Greek text of
Herodian. 2. That the vicissitude of suns and rains, to
which the soldiers of Maximin were exposed (Herodian, l.
viii. p. 277) denotes the spring rather than the summer. We
may observe likewise, that these several streams, as they
melted into one, composed the Timavus, so poetically (in
every sense of the word) described by Virgil. They are about
twelve miles to the east of Aquileia. See Cluver. Italia
Antiqua, tom. i. p. 89, etc.