[57] [Footnote 49: Orosius must be responsible for the account.

The presumption of Gildo and his various train of Barbarians is celebrated by Claudian, Cons.Stil.l.i.

345-355.] [Footnote 50: St.Ambrose, who had been dead about a year, revealed, in a vision, the time and place of the victory.

Mascezel afterwards related his dream to Paulinus, the original biographer of the saint, from whom it might easily pass to Orosius.] [Footnote 51: Zosimus (l.v.p.

303) supposes an obstinate combat; but the narrative of Orosius appears to conceal a real fact, under the disguise of a miracle.] [Footnote 52: Tabraca lay between the two Hippos, (Cellarius, tom.