Africanus causarum in urbe defensor assiduus, post administratam provinciam, ad regendam aliam adspiravit, cuius suffragatori magistro equitum Theodosio, id petenti, subagresti verbo pius responderat imperator: Abi, inquit, comes, et muta ei caput, qui sibi mutari provinciam cupit: et hoc elogio perit homo disertus, ad potiora festinans, ut multi.
Africanus, a busy pleader of cases at law in the city, after governing a province, aspired to the rule of another; but when Theodosius, general of the cavalry, supported him in his request, the kind emperor gave this somewhat boorish reply: Go, general, and change his head for him, since he wants a change in his province. And by this pronouncement an eloquent man lost his life merely for hastening, like many, for advancement.
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