19/23 The same ideas are more copiously expressed in the poetry, if it may deserve that name, of Prudentius; who composed his two books against Symmachus (A.D. 404) while that senator was still alive. It is whimsical enough that Montesquieu (Considerations, &c. 487) should overlook the two professed antagonists of Symmachus, and amuse himself with descanting on the more remote and indirect confutations of Orosius, St.Augustin, and Salvian.] [Footnote 18: See Prudentius (in Symmach.l.i.545, &c.) The Christian agrees with the Pagan Zosimus (l.iv.p. |