Note 045
From Chapter 29 of the Decline & Fall

Orosius (l. vii. c. 36, p. 565) qualifies this account with an expression of doubt (ut aiunt); and it scarcely coincides with the Ancient Greek of Zosimus (l. v. [c. 1 l] p. 303). Yet Claudian, after some declamation about Cadmus's soldiers, frankly owns that Stilicho sent a small army, lest the rebel should fly,

ne timeare times (i. Cons. Stilich. l. i. 314, etc.).
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