Note 046 Jornandes de Rebus Geticis, c. 41, p. 671. The policy of Aetius and the behaviour of Torismond are extremely natural; and the patrician according to Gregory of Tours (1. ii. c. 7, p. 163) dismissed the prince of the Franks by suggesting to him a similar apprehension. The false Idatius ridiculously pretends that Aetius paid a clandestine nocturnal visit to the kings of the Huns and of the Visigoths; from each of whom he obtained a bribe of ten thousand pieces of gold as the price of an undisturbed retreat.

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 35