ABSTRACT
But Julian’s departure for the East and his death in Meso potamia (363) left the field free for the barbarians. For ten years, Valentinian had to defend Gaul, Britain and the Danubian regions against the Alemans, Franks and Saxons, not to speak of Britain against the Scots, Piets and Attacotti. He succeeded partly by hard campaigns in which he advanced as far as the Rhine and beyond, partly by diplom acy, by which he turned some newcomers, the Burgundians, issuing from Scandinavia and recently arrived on the Main, against the Alemans. He left Gaul only in the spring of 375 to fly to the defence of the Danubian provinces against the Sarmatians, an Iranian tribe, and the Quadi (Sueves). He died, it is said, in a fit of passion, on Novem ber 17th, 375, while receiving at Bregetio, near Komorn (half-way between Vienna and Budapest) an embassy of the Quadi which had come to tender him their submission.2 In Africa, the insufficiently Romanized Moors of Maure tania Csesariensis were tenacious and hard to conquer. Theodosius, the father of the future Emperor of this name, succeeded however in subduing Firmus (374).
