[24] Honorius was made Augustus Nov. 20, 393, shortly after his ninth birthday.

[25] The Persians seem to have sent embassies to Rome both in 387 and 389 (Themistius, Orat. xix. p. 227).

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Hinc tibi concreta radice tenacius haesit

et penitus totis inolevit Roma medullis,

dilectaeque urbis tenero conceptus ab ungue

tecum crevit amor. nec te mutare reversum 80

evaluit propria nutritor Bosphorus arce.

et quotiens optare tibi quae moenia malles

adludens genitor regni pro parte dedisset,