Note 025
—Quem fratribus ipse
Discedens, clipeum defensoremque dedisti.
Yet the nomination was private (iii. Cons. Hon 142) cunctos discedere . . . jubet; and may therefore be suspected. Zosimus and Suidas apply to Stilicho and Rufinus the same equal title of Ancient Greek guardians or procurators.
The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 29