This man around the time of Valens[1] is sent into Asia as proconsul, but he had been entrusted with the imperial [treasure] chest.[2] He sends nevertheless the poetical and legendary Echetus, more than anyone from Sicily or Thessaly of the kind to produce gold and revenue.[3] There was a madness not outdoors, but indoors he was raving and acting mad, a man wicked by nature though in possession of power[4] and leaving a ferocity in punishments well-approved in imperial [circles]; he omitted no kind of illegality and licentiousness. But he rushed into such an extreme of derangement and slaughter that he even killed Maximus with a sword,[5] slaying Koiranos the Egyptian on top of him. And while he was still warm and seething with gore he killed all together and burned them up.