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9.1
This is what happened in the mid-winter of the consulship of Valentinian and Valens.In 365. But when the highest magistracy passed to Gratianus,Son of Valentinian; he was not yet seven years old. who was as yet a private citizen, and to Dagalaifus, after the beginning of spring Valens called forth his troops and joining with him Lupicinus and a strong force of auxiliaries, he hastened to Pessinus,Cf. xxii. 9, formerly a town of Phrygia, now of Galatia.
9.2
Having safely garrisoned this place in order to suffer no surprise in those parts, he marched along the foot of the lofty mountain called Olympus,In Galatia. and over rocky paths, towards Lycia, planning to attack Gomoarius, while he loitered there half asleep,Literally, yawning; for oscitantem in this sense, cf. xviii. 6, 8; Terence, Andr. 181; Cic., De Nat. Deo. i. 72.
