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jUf ncbia , queen of Palmyra j but a deluge of Gto/fo 
having on a fudden overfpread lllyrium , Thrace , and 
Macedonia , he determined to repel them. And be- 
ing obliged to take all his forces with him in that 
expedition, he not only forbore himfelf to difurb 
Tetricus in his pofieflion of the Gauls but likewife, 
as Mr. de Boze very probably conjeftures, gave orders, 
that nothing might Te done in his abfence to inter- 
rupt the peace, they had injoyed fince the retreat of 
Gallienus. This real, or at leaf; feigned freindfiip, 
between thefe two emperors feems to be intimated 
by medals, f ruck with the head of each of them on 
the oppofte Tides (i). And the like, as he very in- 
geniouily remarks, may be gathered from a paffage 
of Eumenius , in his Panegyric upon the emperor Con- 
Jlantine , where addrefhng to him in behalf of the 
Aedui he fais : Drcum Claudium , parent e?n tuum> ad 
recuperandas Gallias primi folic it averunt j expe- 
ct ante sque ejus aux ilium feptem menfibus claufi , et 
omnia inopiae miferanda perpejfi , turn demum irrum- 
pendas rebellibus Gallicanis port as reliquerunt , cum 
fejji obfervare non pojjent (2). Thefe Aedui , who 
applied to Claudius for his afliftance, oppofed at that 
time the government of Tetricus j whofe medals give 
us a more noble idea of him, from the ufe he made 
of his victories. For in fome of thefe he is repre- 
fented not as a warrier, but in a fate of peace and 
plenty, with the legend Salvs Avgvstorvm, 
intimating that moderation in fuccefs is the true 
grandeur 
(1) Anfel. Bandur. Numifm. imper. Tom. 1. p. 403. 
(a) Edit, ad ufum Delphin. pag. 222. 
