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5.10
For Aequitius knew of the matter only from the report of the tribune Antonius, who commanded the soldiers in central Dacia and gave a vague account of the affair from that which he himself had heard; and Aequitius himself had not yet heard anything trustworthy, and so merely reported the circumstance to the emperor in simple words.
5.11
Upon hearing the news, Valentinian, after raising the said Aequitius to the rank of a commander-in- chief,lit. of a magister; here, magister militum per Illyricum; cf. xxvi. 7, 11. He had been a count; cf. § 3, above. He was consul with Gratian in 374. decided to go back to Illyricum, lest the rebel after rushing through Thrace and being already formidable should invade Pannonia with a hostile army. For he was greatly alarmed by a recent example, recalling that Julian a short time before, making light of an emperorConstantius; cf. xiv. 10, 16; 11, 8. who had been victor in all civil wars, contrary to all hope and expectation had passed with incredible speed from city to city.
