Book 27
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Now in Isauria bands of brigands were over- 368 A.D. running the neighbouring places,Cf. xiv. 2, 1 ff.; xix. 13, 1. harassing towns and rich villas with unrestrained pillage, and inflicting great losses on Pamphylia and the Cilicians.Cf. Zos. iv. 20. Musonius, the deputy-governorThe lieutenant-governor was a subordinate of the pretorian prefect. In so far as the latter could not himself administer all the parts (dioceses) of his province, the vicarius took his place. of Asia at that time, who had formerly been a teacher of rhetoric in Attic Athens, perceived that, since no one resisted them, they were devastating everything with utter destruction; so at last, finding the situation deplorable and that the luxury of the soldiers made their aid feeble, he gathered together a few half-armed troops, whom they call Diogmitæ,From διωγμός, pursuit, so-called because they were employed as light-armed troops to pursue the enemy; cf. Capit., Ant. Phil., 21, 7. and attempted to attack. one band of the marauders, if the opportunity should offer. But in passing down through a narrow and winding pass he came into an ambuscade from which he could not escape, and was slain there with those whom he was leading.
