OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

From Antioch to Hadrianople, he traversed the chap.

wide extent of his dominions with a numerous_

and stately train; and as he laboured to con- His disceal his apprehensions from the world, and per-death, 3 *haps from himself, he entertained the people of n e cem- 4 ’Constantinople with an exhibition of the games bcr 'of the circus. The progress of the journeymight, however, have warned him of the im-pending danger. In all the principal cities hewas met by ministers of confidence, commis-sioned to seize the offices of government, to ob-serve his motions, and to prevent the hasty sal-lies of his despair. The persons dispatched tosecure the provinces which he left behind, pass-ed him with cold salutations, or affected dis-dain; and the troops, whose station lay alongthe public road, were studiously removed onhis approach, lest they might be tempted to of-fer their swords for the service of a civil war. yAfter Gallus had been permitted to repose him-self a few days at Hadrianople, be received amandate, expressed in the most haughty andabsolute style, that his splendid retinue shouldhalt in that city, while the Caesar himself, withonly ten post-carriages, should hasten to theimperial residence at Milan. In this rapid jour-ney, the profound respect which was due to thebrother and colleague of Constantins, was in-i' The Thebaean legions, which were then quartered at Hadrianople,

«ent a deputation to Gallus, with a tender of their services. Ammian.

1. xiv, c. 11. The Notitia (s. 6, 20, 38, edit. Labb.) mentions three se-veral legions which bore the name of Thebatan. The zeal of M. deVoltaire , to destroy a despicable though celebrated legend, has tempt-ed him, on the slightest grounds, to deny the existence of a Thebaeanlegion in the Roman armies. See Oeuvres de Voltaire, tom xv, p. 414,quarto edition