Compare Themistius (Orat. xiv. p. 181) with Zosimus (1. iv. [c. 25] p. 232), Jornandes (c. xxvii. p. 649), and the prolix Commentary of M. de Buat (Hist. des Peuples, etc., tom. vi. p. 477-552). The Chronicles of Idatius and Marcellinus allude, in general terms, to
magna certamina,
magna multaque praelia. The two epithets are not easily reconciled.