"Ne sarebbe" (says Muratori) "mai passato per mente a que' buoni Alemanni, che quel picciolo torrente potesse, per cosi dire, in un instante cangiarsi in un terribil gigante." (Annali d'Italia, tom.xvi.p.443, Milan, 1752, 8vo edit.)] [Footnote 3711: According to Le Beau and his commentator M.St.Martin, Honorius did not attempt to fly.

Settlements were offered to the Goths in Lombardy, and they advanced from the Po towards the Alps to take possession of them.

But it was a treacherous stratagem of Stilicho, who surprised them while they were reposing on the faith of this treaty.

Le Beau, v.

x.] [Footnote 38: Claudian does not clearly answer our question, Where was Honorius himself?
Yet the flight is marked by the pursuit; and my idea of the Gothic was is justified by the Italian critics, Sigonius (tom.
P, ii.p.369, de Imp.Occident.l.