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[25] But the right wing was led by Serapio, who was [p. 279] still a young man with downy cheeks, but his ability outran his years; he was the son of Mederichus, Chonodomarius' brother, a man of the utmost treachery all his life; and he was so named because his father, who had for a long time been kept as a hostage in Gaul and had been taught certain Greek mysteries, changed his son's original native name of Agenarichus to that of Serapio. 1

1 The name is connected with Serapis, as that of a god similar to Dis; cf. Caesar, BG. vi. 18; Galli se omnes ab Dite patre prognatos praedicant.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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