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188.)] [Footnote 118: Claudian's wit is intolerable: the snow was dyed red; the cold ver smoked; and the channel must have been choked with carcasses the current had not been swelled with blood.

Confluxit populus: totam pater undique secum Moverat Aurorem; mixtis hic Colchus Iberis, Hic mitra velatus Arabs, hic crine decoro Armenius, hic picta Saces, fucataque Medus, Hic gemmata tiger tentoria fixerat Indus .-- De Laud.
Stil.l.

145 .-- M.] [Footnote 119: Theodoret affirms, that St.John, and St.Philip, appeared to the waking, or sleeping, emperor, on horseback, &c.

This is the first instance of apostolic chivalry, which afterwards became so popular in Spain, and in the Crusades.] [Footnote 120: Te propter, gelidis Aquilo de monte procellis Obruit adversas acies; revolutaque tela Vertit in auctores, et turbine reppulit hastas O nimium dilecte Deo, cui fundit ab antris Aeolus armatas hyemes; cui militat Aether, Et conjurati veniunt ad classica venti.
These famous lines of Claudian (in iii.Cons.Honor.93, &c.