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| Of the information given by Maximus the tyrant to Valentinianus.
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Chapter XIV.—Of the information
given by Maximus the tyrant to Valentinianus.
After a
considerable time Maximus866
was informed of
the attacks which were being made upon the loud-voiced herald of the
truth, and he sent dispatches to Valentinianus charging him to put a
stop to his war against true religion and exhorting him not to abandon
his father’s faith. In the event of his advice being disregarded
he further threatened war, and confirmed what he wrote by what he
did,867
| 867 The motives here stated seem to have had little to do with the
march of Maximus over the Alps. Indeed so far from enthusiasm for
Ambrose and the Ambrosian view of the faith being conspicuous in the
invader, he had received the bishop at Treves as envoy from
Valentinian, had refused to be diverted from his purpose, and had
moreover taken offence at the objection of Ambrose to communicate with
the bishops who had been concerned in the first capital punishment of a
heretic—i.e. Priscillian. | for he mustered his forces and marched
for Milan where Valentinianus was then residing. When the latter heard
of his approach he fled into Illyricum.868
| 868 Valentinian and his mother fled to Thessalonica. | He had learnt by experience what good
he had got by following his mother’s advice.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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