b Clearchus, prefect of the city of Constantinople, is well known, by whom the necessary water which was daily awaited with vows is brought to the community.
7 b Maximinus the prefect of the Annona 1 , having been ordered by the emperor to investigate wrongdoers, slew many of the nobles of Rome. 371
c Peter is ordained 20th bishop of Alexandria, who after the death of Valens was so easy receiving back the heretics that some people brought in the suspicion that he was accepting bribes.
c Valentinus crushed in Britain, of which he had before taken possession as a usurper.
d A presbyter of Sirmium is very unjustly beheaded because he refused to betray Octavianus that was hiding at his house from the proconsul. 2390 10 d Melania, noblest of Roman women, and daughter of the sometime consul Marcellinus, at that time having left behind her only son, the urban praetor, sailed to Jerusalem, where she was such a miracle of virtue and especially of humility, that she received the name of Thecla. 2 374
8 e Didymus the Alexandrian writes many commentaries about our dogma using secretaries. He had been deprived of his sight after the 5th year of his life and was actually ignorant of first principles of writing. 372
e After the tardy death of Auxentius, Ambrosius of Milan is appointed bishop, and everybody in Italy is converted to the right faith.
f Probus, Prefect of the Illyrians, destroyed the provinces that he was ruling by the most iniquitous extractions of tributes, even before they were devastated by the barbarians.
f The priests of Aquileia are considered almost as a chorus of the blessed.
11 g Because in the previous year the Sarmatians had devastated the Pannonian provinces, the same Consuls remained in office. 375
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9 g Eunomius the disciple of Aetius of Constantinople is well known, from whom comes the Eunomian heresy. 373 h Valentinian dies suddenly at Brigitio from an eruption of blood which is called an 'apoplexy' in Greek. After him Gratian is taken up into power with his brother Valentinian and reigns with his uncle Valens.
h The Saxons slaughtered at Deuso in the land of the Franks.
(1) The grain supply.
(2) Rufinus accused Jerome of deleting this entry from his own copy of the Chronicle after falling out with Melania (the Elder).
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a Many of the monks at Nitria slaughtered by the tribunes and the soldiers. a After the Romans had been defeated in combat, the Goths are spread out in Thrace.
b Valens made a law that monks must do military service, and ordered that any who did not want to should be beaten to death with their staves. 14 b Valens, forced to leave Antioch, in tardy penitence recalls our people from exile. 378
12 c Theodosius, father of the Theodosius who was later Emperor, and many nobles slain. 376
[15] c Lamentable war in Thrace, in which the Roman legions, lacking the protection of horse, were surrounded by the Goths and slaughtered to extinction: the emperor Valens himself, when wounded by an arrow, fled and because of the severe pain often almost fell from his horse, was carried off to a certain farm cottage, and after being pursued there by the barbarians and the house set on fire, he did not even obtain burial. d From the founding of the City until the end of this work there are 1131 years, in this manner:
under kings,
240 years
under consuls,
464 years