29,) his date of the consulship of Stilicho and Aurelian (A.D.

400) is firm and respectable.
It is certain from Claudian (Tillemont, Hist.

des Emp.tom.v.p.

804) that the battle of Polentia was fought A.D.

403; but we cannot easily fill the interval.] [Footnote 28: Tantum Romanae urbis judicium fugis, ut magis obsidionem barbaricam, quam pacatoe urbis judicium velis sustinere.