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[8] Along with his intolerable character he had this additional incentive to his devastations, that while he was enriching himself through the woes of others, [p. 603] he was inexorable, cruel, savage and fearlessly hardhearted, never capable of giving or receiving reason, more hated than Cleander, 1 who, as we read, when prefect under the emperor Commodus, in his haughty madness had ruined the fortunes of many men; more oppressive than Plautianus, 2 also a prefect under Severus, who with superhuman arrogance would have caused general confusion, if he had not perished by the avenging sword.

1 See Dio, lxii. 12, 13; Lamprid., Commodus, 6, 7.

2 See Dio, lxxv. 14-16.

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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