__Capto terrarum damna patebant
Litorio: in Rhodanum proprios producere fines,
Theudoridae fixum; nec erat pugnare necesse
Sed migrare Getis. Rabidam trux asperat iram
Victor; quod sensit Scythicum sub moenibus hostem
Imputat, et nihil est gravius, si forsitan unquam
Vincere contingat, trepido.__ Panegyr. Avit. 300, etc.
Sidonius then proceeds, according to the duty of a panegyrist, to transfer the whole merit from Aetius to his minister Avitus.