18, xi.

5, 39.)] [Footnote 60: See his regard and indulgence for the spectacles of the circus, the amphitheatre, and the theatre, in the Chronicle and Epistles of Cassiodorus, (Var.i.20, 27, 30, 31, 32, iii.

51, iv.
51, illustrated by the xivth Annotation of Mascou's History), who has contrived to sprinkle the subject with ostentatious, though agreeable, learning.] [Footnote 61: Anonym.Vales.p.721.Marius Aventicensis in Chron.

In the scale of public and personal merit, the Gothic conqueror is at least as much above Valentinian, as he may seem inferior to Trajan.] [Footnote 62: Vit.

Fulgentii in Baron.Annal.Eccles.