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10.21
At that same time Frigeridus, who was carefully making many useful plans for the general security, and was hastening to fortify the pass of Succi,See xxi. 10, 2 ff., and note 1. in order that the roving light-armed bands of the enemy might not, like torrents swollen by melting snow, roam at large over the northern provinces, was given a successor in the person of a general called Maurus, notoriously venal under a pretence of boldness, and changeable and unreliable in all his conduct. He it was who (as I have told in my narrative of previous events)Cf. xx. 4, 18. when Caesar Julian was in doubt about the crown to be put upon his head, with haughty cleverness took off his neck-chain and boldly offered it to him for the purpose, being at the time one of Julian’s bodyguard.
10.22
Thus even in the dizzy whirl of disasters a careful and active leaderFrigeridus. was removed, whereas he should have been recalled to active service at the demand of such important affairs, even if he had long since retired to a peaceful life.
