Note 151 Ammianus (xxx. 5), who acknowledges the merit, has censured, with becoming asperity, the oppressive administration of Petronius Probus. When Jerom translated and continued the Chronicle of Eusebius (A.D. 380; see Tillemont, Mem. Ecles. tom. xii. p. 53, 626), he expressed the truth, for at least the public opinion of his country, in the jollowing words: "Probus P. P. Illyrici iniquissimis tributorum exactionibus, ante provincias quas regebat, quama Barbaris vastarentur, 'erasit'." (Chron. edit. Scaliger, p. 187; Animadvers. p. 259.) The saint afterwards formed an intimate and tender friendship with the widow of Probus; and the name of Count Equitius, with less propriety, but without much injustice, has been substituted in the text.

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