These regions, and especially those bordering on Italy, came gradually and with slight effort under the dominion of Rome; they were first essayed by Fulvius,M. Fulvius Flaccus; see Index and cf. Livy, , lx. and lxi. then undermined in petty battles by Sextius,C. Sextius Calvinus; see Index and cf. Livy, , lxi. and finally subdued by Fabius Maximus,In 121 B.C. on whom the full completion of this business (when he had vanquished the formidable tribe of the Allobroges)In 121 B.C. conferred that surname.Allobrogicus.

Now the whole of Gaul (except where, as the authority of Sallusti. 11, Maurenbrecher. informs us, it was impassable with marshes), after losses on both sides during ten years of war the dictator Caesar subdued and joined to us in an everlasting covenant of alliance. I have digressed too far, but I shall at last return to my subject.

After Domitianus was dispatched by a cruel death,Cf. xiv. 7, 16. his successor Musonianus governed the East with the rank of pretorian prefect, a man famed for his command of both languages,Greek and Latin; cf. Suet., 42, l. from which he won higher distinction than was expected.