and Licinius, sided with Constantine, and fought very valiantly for him.  And in other places of the same Book he records, that during the Reign of Constantine, the Son of Constantine, great numbers of Franks were at that Court in high favour and authority, with Caesar.  “Afterwards, says he, Malarichus on a sudden got power, having gained the Franks; whereof at that time great numbers flourish’d at Court.”—­During the Reign of Julian, call’d the Apostate, the same Franks endeavour’d to restore the City of Cologne (which was grievously oppress’d by Roman Slavery) to its liberty:  and forced it, after a long Siege, to surrender thro’ Famine; as the same Ammianus tells us, lib. 12.  And because one Band of those Franks fix’d their Habitations upon the Banks of the River Sala, they were thereupon called Salii; concerning whom he writes in the same Book,—­“Having prepar’d there things, he first of all march’d towards the Franks; I mean those Franks which were commonly called Salii, who had formerly with great boldness fix’d their Habitations within the Roman Territories, near a place called Toxiandria.”  Again, in his 20th Book he makes mention of that Country possess’d by the Franks beyond the Rhine, and called Francia.—­“Having on a sudden pass’d the Rhine, he enter’d the Country of those Franks called Attuarii, a turbulent sort of People, who at that time made great Havock on the Frontiers of Gallia.”—­And in his 30th Book, where he speaks of King Macrianus, with whom Valentinian the Emperor had lately made a Peace on the Banks of the Rhine, in the Territory of Mentz,—­“He died, says he, in Francia, whilst he was utterly wasting with Fire and Sword all before him, being kill’d in an Ambush laid for him by that valiant King Mellobandes.”  Now of this Mellobandes, King of the Franks, the same Author in his following Book gives this Character; “That he was brave and valiant, and upon the score of his Military Virtue constituted great Master of the Houshold by the Emperor Gratianus, and Lieutenant-General (in conjunction with Nannienus) of that Army which was sent against the Lentiates, a People of Germany.”  Afterwards, by virtue of a Treaty concluded between the Franks and the Emperor Honorius, they defended the Frontiers of the Roman Gallia against Stilicon:  For Orosius tells us in his last Book, “That the Nations of the Alani, Suevi and Vandali, being (together with many others) encouraged by Stilicon; pass’d the Rhine, wasted the Territories of the Franks, and invaded Gallia.”