Baronius (Annal.

Eccles.
A.D.398, No.

35-56) has treated the African rebellion with skill and learning.] [Footnote 38: Instat terribilis vivis, morientibus haeres, Virginibus raptor, thalamis obscoenus adulter.
Nulla quies: oritur praeda cessante libido, Divitibusque dies, et nox metuenda maritis.
Mauris clarissima quaeque Fastidita datur.
-- --De Bello Gildonico, 165, 189.
Baronius condemns, still more severely, the licentiousness of Gildo; as his wife, his daughter, and his sister, were examples of perfect chastity.

The adulteries of the African soldiers are checked by one of the Imperial laws.] [Footnote 39: Inque tuam sortem numerosas transtulit urbes.

Claudian (de Bell.