627.] [Footnote 47: Claudian (de Bell.Get.

580-647) and Prudentius (in Symmach.n.

694-719) celebrate, without ambiguity, the Roman victory of Pollentia.

They are poetical and party writers; yet some credit is due to the most suspicious witnesses, who are checked by the recent notoriety of facts.] [Footnote 48: Claudian's peroration is strong and elegant; but the identity of the Cimbric and Gothic fields must be understood (like Virgil's Philippi, Georgic i.

490) according to the loose geography of a poet.