Book 29
5.5
Then setting out from Arles under favourable auspices and crossing the sea with the fleet under his command, preceded by no report of his coming he landed on the coast of SitifianSitifis, modern Setif, gave its name to one division of Mauritania; the others were Caesariensis and Tingitana. Mauritania, which the natives call Igilgilitanum. There he chanced upon Romanus, whom he addressed courteously, and sent him to take charge of the guards and frontier defences, with a very slight rebuke for the conductI.e., his misconduct; Theodosius was well aware that Romanus was to blame for the revolt. which made him apprehensive.
5.6
When Theodosius had departed to Caesarean Mauritania, he sent Gildo,He, after the death of the emperor Theodosius, being then commander in Africa, revolted from Honorius. the brother of Firmus, and Maximus to arrest Vincentius, who as second in command to Romanus participated in his insolence and thefts.
