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[4] Accordingly, advancing in square formation, 1 he came to the vicinity of a suburb of Hadrianopolis, 2 where he made a strong rampart of stakes, surrounded by a moat, and impatiently waited for Gratian; there he received Richomeres, general of the household troops, sent in advance by Gratian with a letter, in which he said that he himself also would soon be there.

1 See xxix. 5, 39, note on agmine quadrato.

2 Or perhaps “to the vicinity of Hadrianopolis”—with Ammianus' usual tautology. Clark has Hadrianupolis, with V.

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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