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deliver up the whole booty, the difpofal of which 
was claimed by the prince. The a: my upon hearing 
of this order afl'embled in a tumultuous manner, de- 
clared both Gt. Menus and his ion unworthy of the 
empire, tore off their images from the military en- 
iigns, and obliged Po/lumus to affume the purple for 
the fecurity of his own life (i). After this they 
marched immediately to Cokgn , where Snloninus and 
Sili-anus then refided ; and compelling the inhabi- 
tants to give them up, they maflacred them both. 
Gtillienus , more concerned for the lofs of his fon 
titan his father’s imprifonment, fent no forces againfl 
the Perfians ; but ordered his held troops to march 
into Gaul , with a fhew of determined vengeance. 
Po/lumus oppofed them for three whole years, at the 
end of which he was quite exhaufded, and obliged to 
defend his laid town himfelf; when G alii etuis , who 
was delirous of the honour of conquering him in per- 
fon, approaching too near the wall, was wounded in the 
ihoulder with an arrow j which caufed him to raife 
the feige, and return to Rome , without thinking any 
more either of Po/lumus or the Gauls. Who being 
thus freed from the danger which threatened them, 
iuftice, plenty, and the love of arts, flourifhed among 
ihem under the government of Po/lumus j to whofe 
honor divers monuments were eredted, reprefenting 
as their tutelar deities, the godefs Pax, but princi- 
pally Hercules. And feveral of his medals are yet 
extant, with the title, Restitvtor Galliakvm (2). 
But 
(1) 7 onaras, ubi fupra. Treb. Pollio r in Poftutno. 
(2) Cabinet du Roy. 
