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[3] At the same time Aequitius, 1 who was not yet a commander-in-chief, 2 but only a count, was put in charge of the army in Illyricum, and Serenianus, who some time before had been retired from service, being a Pannonian 3 girded on his sword and was joined with Valens in command of a part of the bodyguard. After matters had been thus arranged, the troops also were divided between the two emperors.

1 See xxvi. 1, 4.

2 He was later made magister armorum; see ยง 11, below.

3 Hence a fellow-countryman of Valentinian and Valens.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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