... 4[Footnote 51 : See the Sacred History of Sulpicius Severus, (l. ii. p. 437 - 452 , edit. Ludg. Bat. 1647,) a correctand original writer. Dr. Lardner (Credibility, &c., part ii. vol. ix. p. 256 - 35 0 ) ... (l.iv. p. 259 - 267,) Orosius, (l. vii. c. 35 , ) and Pacatus, (in Panegyr. Vet. xii. 30 - 47,) supply the loose andscanty materials of this civil war. Ambrose (tom. ii. Epist. xl. p. 952 , 9 53 ) darkly ... 1 25 - 138 . Thepoetical fame of Ausonius condemns the taste of his age.][Footnote 2: Ausonius was successively promoted to the Praetorian praefecture of Italy, (A.D. 37 7,) and of Gaul, (A.D. 37 8;)...