Claudian is not prepared for the strict examination of our antiquaries.] [Footnote 90:--Germinasque viator Cum videat ripas, quae sit Romana requirat.] [Footnote 91: Jerom, tom.i.p.93.See in the 1st vol.of the Historians of France, p.

777, 782, the proper extracts from the Carmen de Providentil Divina, and Salvian.

The anonymous poet was himself a captive, with his bishop and fellow-citizens.] [Footnote 92: The Pelagian doctrine, which was first agitated A.D.
405, was condemned, in the space of ten years, at Rome and Carthage.

St Augustin fought and conquered; but the Greek church was favorable to his adversaries; and (what is singular enough) the people did not take any part in a dispute which they could not understand.] [Footnote 93: See the Memoires de Guillaume du Bellay, l.vi.In French, the original reproof is less obvious, and more pointed, from the double sense of the word journee, which alike signifies, a day's travel, or a battle.] In the early part of the reign of Honorius, the vigilance of Stilicho had successfully guarded the remote island of Britain from her incessant enemies of the ocean, the mountains, and the Irish coast.

[94] But those restless Barbarians could not neglect the fair opportunity of the Gothic war, when the walls and stations of the province were stripped of the Roman troops.