[14] Gibbon here proposes for lenitatem to read levitatem, fickleness; himself describing Montius as "a statesman whose art and experience were frequently betrayed by the levity of his disposition."—Cap. xix., p. 298, vol. iii., Bohn's edition.
[15] Châlons sur Saône.
[16] Near Basle.
[17] It will be observed that Ammianus here speaks of himself as in attendance upon Ursicinus.
[18] Maximianus Herculius.
[19] Diocletian.
[20] As we say, Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
[21] The town of Pettau, on the Drave.
[22] A paleness such as overspread the countenance of Adrastus when he saw his two sons-in-law, Pydeus and Polynices, slain at Thebes. Virgil speaks of Adrasti pallentis imago, Æn. vi. 480.
[23] Ammianus here confounds Nemesis with Fortuna. Compare Horace's description of the latter goddess, Lib. i. Od. 34:—