[187] Constantine the younger.

[188] Jovian.

[189] Gallus Cæsar by Constantius. The two who died natural deaths were Constantine the Great and his son Constantius.

[190] The widow of Jovian, whose son Varronian was deprived of an eye. See Gibbon, vol. iv. p. 222.

[191] Doubtful; possibly first wife of Valentinian I., divorced from him and sent into exile.

[192] Constantia, wife of Gratian.

[193] Flacilla, wife of Theodosius. Compare this mournful list of tragic deaths of sovereigns with the splendid passage in Shakespeare’s Richard II.:—

“For Heaven’s sake let’s sit upon the ground,

And tell sad stories of the death of kings,” etc.

[194] De Virginitate, c. 15.