`` We have no men . We must fight with words , '' said Pertinax . `` Leave it to Allo and me . '' ` So Allo carried word back to the Winged Hats that we would not fight them if they did not fight us ; and they -LRB- I think they were a little tired of losing men in the sea -RRB- agreed to a sort of truce . I believe Allo , who being a horse-dealer loved lies , also told them we might some day rise against Maximus as Maximus had risen against Rome . ` Indeed , they permitted the corn-ships which I sent to the Picts to pass North that season without harm . Therefore the Picts were well fed that winter , and since they were in some sort my children , I was glad of it . We had only two thousand men on the Wall , and I wrote many times to Maximus and begged -- prayed -- him to send me only one cohort of my old North British troops . He could not spare them . He needed them to win more victories in Gaul . ` Then came news that he had defeated and slain the Emperor Gratian , and thinking he must now be secure , I wrote again for men . He answered : `` You will learn that I have at last settled accounts with the pup Gratian . There was no need that he should have died , but he became confused and lost his head , which is a bad thing to befall any Emperor . Tell your Father I am content to drive two mules only ; for unless my old General 's son thinks himself destined to destroy me , I shall rest Emperor of Gaul and Britain , and then you , my two children , will presently get all the men you need . Just now I can spare none . '' ' ` What did he mean by his General 's son ? ' said Dan . ` He meant Theodosius Emperor of Rome , who was the son of Theodosius the General under whom Maximus had fought in the old Pict War . The two men never loved each other , and when Gratian made the younger Theodosius Emperor of the East -LRB- at least , so I 've heard -RRB- , Maximus carried on the war to the second generation . It was his fate , and it was his fall .
But Theodosius the XXXXX is a good man .
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