Note 075
From Chapter 14 of the Decline & Fall

Praetoriae legiones ac subsidia factionibus aptiora quam urbi Roma, sublata penitus, simul arma atque usus indumenti militaris. Aurelius victon [1. c.]

Zosimus (1. ii. [c. 1 7] p. 89) mentions this fact as an historian, and it is very pompously celebrated in the ninth Panegyric.

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