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After this, all rose up to praise the elder and the younger emperor, and especially the boy, who was recommended by the fierier gleam of his eyes, the delightful charm of his face and his whole body, and the noble nature of his heart; these qualities would have completed an emperor fit to be compared with the choicest rulers of the olden time, had this been allowed by the fates and by his intimates, who, by evil actions, cast a cloud over his virtue, which was even then not firmly steadfast.
6.16
However, in this affair Valentinian overstepped the usage established of old, in that he named his brother and his son, not Caesar, but Augustus, generously enough. For before that no one had appointed a colleague of equal power with himself except the emperor Marcus,Marcus Aurelius. Titus is not an exception; see Trans. Amer. Phil. Assoc. xlv. (1914), pp. 43 f. who made his adopted brother Verus his partner, but without any impairment of his own imperial majesty.
7.1
Scarcely had a few days passed since these affairs were settled according to the desire of the emperor and the soldiers,At Amiens, Aug. 24, 367. when Mamertinus, the praetorian prefect,In Illyricum, Africa, and Italy; cf. xxvi. 5, 5. on his return from Rome, to which he had gone to correct certain abuses, was charged with peculationIn 365. by Avitianus, a former deputy governor.In Africa.
