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  • Of the death of Gratianus and the sovereignty of Maximus.
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    Chapter XII.—Of the death of Gratianus and the sovereignty of Maximus

    Gratianus in the midst of his successes in war and wise and prudent government ended his life by conspiracy.861

    861 Gratianus made himself unpopular (i) by his excessive addiction to sport, playing the Commodus in the “Vivaria,” when not even a Marcus Aurelius could have answered all the calls of the Empire. (Amm. xxxi. x. 19) and (ii) by affecting the society and customs of barbarians (Aur. Vict. xlvii. 6). The troops in Britain rose against him, gathered aid in the Low Countries, and defeated him near Paris. He fled to Lyons, where he was treacherously assassinated Aug. 25, 383. He was only twenty-four. (Soc. v. 11.)

    He left no sons to inherit the empire, and a brother of the same name as their father, Valentinianus,862

    862 Valentinianus II., son of Valentinianus I. and Justina was born c. 371.

    who was quite a youth. So Maximus,863

    863 Magnus Maximus reigned from 383 to 388. Like Theodosius, he was a Spaniard.

    in contempt of the youth of Valentinianus, seized the throne of the West.

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