Eccles.

tom vi.p.

589.)] [Footnote 7:--Juvenum rorantia colla Ante patrum vultus stricta cecidere securi.
Ibat grandaevus nato moriente superstes Post trabeas exsul.
-- -In Rufin.i.

248.
The facts of Zosimus explain the allusions of Claudian; but his classic interpreters were ignorant of the fourth century.

The fatal cord, I found, with the help of Tillemont, in a sermon of St.Asterius of Amasea.] [Footnote 8: This odious law is recited and repealed by Arcadius, (A.D.
296,) on the Theodosian Code, l.ix.tit.xxxviii.leg.