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10.4
The part of this pass, which faces Illy- ricum, since it rises more gently, is sometimes easily surmounted, as though it kept no guard. But the opposite side, over against Thrace, precipitous and falling sheer downward, is made difficult on both sides by rough paths, and is hard to get over even when there is no opposition. At the foot of these heights on both sides lie spacious plains, the upper one extending as far as the Julian Alps,Formerly called Venetic, xxi. 16, 7. the other so flat and open that there is no hindrance to its habitation as far as the straitThe Hellespont. and the Propontis.
10.5
After these arrangements had been made in a matter so momentous and so urgent, the emperor, leaving the commander of the cavalry there, returned to NaessusNish in Servia (Serbia). (a well-supplied town), from which he might without hindrance attend to everything that would contribute to his advantage.
10.6
There he made Victor, the writer of history,Sextus Aurelius Victor, the author of some extant works. whom he had seen at Sirmium and had bidden to come from there, consular governor of Pannonia Secunda, and honoured him with a statue in bronze, a man who was a model of temperance, and long afterwards prefect of the City.At Rome, 388-389.
