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Facta igitur pace cum Persis ad Thracias rediit et centum milia Bastarnarum in solo Romano 1 2 3 [2] constituit, qui omnes fidem servarunt. sed cum et ex aliis gentibus plerosque pariter transtulisset, id est ex Gepedis, Greuthungis et Vandalis, illi omnes fidem fregerunt et occupato bellis tyrannicis Probo per totum paene orbem pedibus et navigando vagati sunt nec parum molestiae Romanae gloriae intulerunt. [3] quos quidem ille diversis vicibus variisque victoriis oppressit, paucis domum cum gloria redeuntibus, quod Probi evasissent manus, haec Probus cum barbaris gessit. [4] Sed habuit etiam non leves tyrannicos motus, nam et Saturninum, qui orientis imperium arripuerat, variis proeliorum generibus et nota virtute superavit, quo victo tanta in oriente quies fuit, ut, quemadmodum vulgo loquebantur, mures rebelles nullus audiret. [5] deinde cum Proculus et Bonosus apud Agrippinam in Gallia imperium arripuissent omnesque sibi iam Britannias, Hispanias et bracatae Galliae provincias vindicarent, barbaris semet iuvantibus vicit. [6] Ac ne requiras plura vel de Saturnino vel de Proculo vel de Bonoso, suo eosdem inseram libro, 4 5 6 7 8 pauca de iisdem, ut 9 decet, immo ut poscit necessitas, [7] locuturus. unum sane sciendum est, quod Germani omnes, cum ad auxilium essent rogati a Proculo, Probo servire maluerunt quam cum Bonoso et Proculo imperare. 10 [8] Gallis omnibus et Hispanis ac Britannis hinc permisit, ut vites haberent vinumque conficerent. ipse Almam montem in Illyrico circa Sirmium militari manu fossum lecta vite conseruit.
1 For a similar policy, see Alex., lviii. 4.
2 From Nubia; see note to Aur., xxxiii. 4. Undaunted by the defeat administered under Aurelian they had broken forth again and had overrun all Upper Egypt. According to Zosimus, i. 71, 1, they were now defeated by Probus' generals; because of this statement it has been questioned whether Probus himself was in Egypt at all.
3 i.e., the Persians, against whom the present eastern expedition was directed in resumption of the war which had been cut short by the murder of Aurelian; see Aur., xxxv. 4-5.
4 North of the mouth of the Danube. Like the Getae, they may have been driven southward by the pressure of the Goths, and now they were admitted to Roman territory.
5 Both Gothic tribes; see Claud., vi. 2 and note. Nothing is known of any of these settlers, but Zosimus (i. 71, 2) tells of a colony of Franks settled by Probus near the mouth of the Danube, who, as soon as the Emperor had left the region, built ships and, after plundering the coasts of Greece, Sicily and northern Africa, sailed off to their home, near the mouth of the Rhine. The biographer may have generalised this incident.
6 See Firm., vii.-xi.
7 See Firm., xii.-xiii.
8 See Firm., xiv-xv.
Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Vol 3. David Magie. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1932. OCR cleanup.
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