Barbary was quiet, no revolution troubled the empire’s peace and though so great a prince was dead the world knew not that the reins had passed into another’s hands. No company in the two armies[188] dared aught as though set loose from control. Yet surely never had such diversities of language and arms met together to form one united people. Theodosius had unified the whole East beneath his rule. Here were mingled Colchian and Iberian, mitred Arab, beautifully coifed Armenian; here the Sacian had pitched his painted tent, the Mede his [187] _i.e._ Eugenius. [188] _i.e._ of East and West. * * * * * Page 376 hic gemmata niger tentoria fixerat Indus; hic Rhodani procera cohors, hic miles alumnus Oceani. ductor Stilicho tot gentibus unus, 160 quot vel progrediens vel conspicit occiduus sol. in quo tam vario vocum generumque tumultu tanta quies iurisque metus servator honesti te moderante fuit, nullis ut vinea furtis vel seges erepta fraudaret messe colonum, 165 ut nihil aut saevum rabies aut turpe libido suaderet, placidi servirent legibus enses. scilicet in vulgus manant exempla regentum, utque ducum lituos, sic mores castra sequuntur. Denique felices aquilas quocumque moveres, 170 arebant tantis epoti milibus amnes. Illyricum peteres: campi montesque latebant. vexillum navale dares: sub puppibus ibat Ionium. nullas[189] succincta Ceraunia nimbis nec iuga Leucatae feriens spumantia fluctu 175 deterrebat hiems. tu si glaciale iuberes vestigare fretum, securo milite ducti stagna reluctantes quaterent Saturnia remi; si deserta Noti, fontem si quaerere Nili, Aethiopum medios penetrassent vela vapores. 180 Te memor Eurotas, te rustica Musa Lycaei, te pastorali modulantur Maenala cantu Partheniumque nemus, quod te pugnante resurgens aegra caput mediis erexit Graecia flammis. plurima Parrhasius tunc inter corpora Ladon 185 [189] AΠ _nullum_; other MSS. _nullis_, which Birt prints. But _deterrebat_ needs an object (as A and Π indicate). Possibly, then, _nullas_. * * * * * Page 377