Book 27
4.14
Now it is well known, as constant reports have spread abroad, that almost all the country folk who dwell in the high mountains throughout the lands just described surpass us in health and strength, and in the prerogative (so to speak) of prolonging life; and it is thought that this is due to abstinence from a conglomeration of diet and from hot baths,With calidis sc. aquis. and a lasting freshness knits their bodies through cold sprinklings with dew; and they enjoy the sweetness of a purer air; further they are first of all to feel the rays of the sun, which are by their own nature life-giving, before they are infected with any stains from human affairs. After having thus given an account of these matters, let us return to our task.
5.1
After Procopius had been vanquished in 366 A.D. Phrygia, and the source of internal strife lulled to rest, Victor, commander of the cavalry, was sent to the Goths,The Moeso-Goths in Dacia. Zos. iv. 10, 11, calls them Scythians. in order to get clear information why a people friendly to the Romans and bound by the treaties of a long-continued peace had lent support to a usurper who was making war on the legitimate emperors. They, in order to excuse their action by a strong defence, presented a letter from the said Procopius, in which he asserted that he had assumed the sovereignty that was due him as nearly related to the family of Constantine;See xxvi. 6, 1; 7, 10. and they maintained that their error was pardonable.
