The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes. VVhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories

CAP. IX.

The Barbarians seeing the Romaine armie falling to rebellion set vp them selues, but they were foyled by Germanus.

AS toutching the armie spoken of before, it stood in maner at the same stay, that the Barba∣rians perswaded them selues verily, none would withstande them, but that after their won∣ted maner they might destroye and inuade the Romaine dominions. But Germanus met them with his power, and so foyled them by force of armes, that there was not one left to bring the Persians tidings of their slaughter.