Anno ab incarnatione Domini trecentesimo septuagesimo septimo Gratianus quadragesimus ab Augusto, post mortem Valentis sex annis imperium tenuit: quamvis iamdudum antea cum patruo Valente, et cum Valentiniano fratre regnaret: qui cum adflictum et pene collapsum reipublicae statum videret, Theodosium Hispanum virum, restituendae reipublicae necessitate apud Syrmium purpura induit, Orientisque et Thraciae simul praefecit imperio.
The 377th year of the incarnation of our Lord, Gratian, the 40th emperor after Augustus, reigned 6 years after the death of Valens, though for long before he reigned also with Valens his uncle and Valentinian his brother: which, seeing the state of the commonwealth miserably plagued and nigh altogether decayed, was driven of necessity for the better repairing of the commonwealth to bestow the imperial purple upon Theodosius, a Spaniard born, at Syrmium, and set him over the government of the East and Thrace together.
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