All this your modesty counts as nothing? What was the army when you took command? A disorderly rabble——
Severus.
——without coherence, without discipline, without direction——
Julian.
You exaggerate, Severus!
Florentius.
And was it not with this undisciplined rabble that you took the field against the Alemanni? Did you not win battle after battle with these levies, till your victories transformed them into an invincible host? Did you not retake Colonia Agrippina——?
Julian.
Come come, you see with the eye of friendship, my Florentius!—Or is it really so? Is it a fact, that I drove the barbarians out of the islands of the Rhine! That I placed the ruined Tres Tabernae in a posture of defence, making it a bulwark of the empire? Is it really so?
Florentius.