28/30 A modern general would deem their submission either heroic patriotism or abject servility.] [Footnote 24: Compare the poem on the first consulship (i. 95-115) with the Laus Serenoe (227-237, where it unfortunately breaks off.) We may perceive the deep, inveterate malice of Rufinus.] [Footnote 25:--Quem fratribus ipse Discedens, clypeum defensoremque dedisti. Yet the nomination (iv.Cons.Hon. 432) was private, (iii. |