Book 31
11.6
While this was going on in Thrace, Gratian, having informed his uncle by letter with what energy he had overthrown the Alamanni, sent on ahead by land all his baggage and packs, and descending the Danube with a band of light-armed troops, came to BononiaPtolemy locates this place in Upper Pannonia, the modern Banastar; cf. xxi. 9, 6. and entered Sirmium. Having delayed there for four days, he went on over the same river to the Camp of Mars,A small town in Dacia Ripensis (in Moesia, according to Sozomenus, ix. 5). although attacked by intermittent fevers. In that region the Halani unexpectedly fell upon him, and he lost a few of his followers.
