610.] [Footnote 14: His name was Porphyrius Optatianus.

The date of his panegyric, written, according to the taste of the age, in vile acrostics, is settled by Scaliger ad Euseb.p.250, Tillemont, tom.

iv.
p.

607, and Fabricius, Biblioth.

Latin, l.iv.c.