Note 102:1 — PART II. Greek Dualism.
Reading edition
"Tidings have reached us that Valerian has been defeated, and is now in the hands of Sapor. The threats of Franks and Allemanni, of Goths and Persians, are alike terrible by turns to our degenerate Rome." (Plotinus to Flaccus; quoted by Vaughan in his Half hours with Mystics, p. 63.)