[26] Orat. iv. vol. i. p. 69, ed. Dind.
[27] i. 7.
[28] This higher education was not confined to Rome or Athens, but was found in many parts of the empire: Marseilles in the time of Strabo was even more frequented than Athens. There were other great schools at Antioch and Alexandria, at Rhodes and Smyrna, at Ephesus and Byzantium, at Naples and Nicopolis, at Bordeaux and Autun. The practice of resorting to such schools lasted long. In the fourth century and among the Christian Fathers, Basil and Gregory Nazianzen, Augustine and Jerome, are recorded to have followed it: the general recognition of Christianity did not seriously affect the current educational system: “Through the whole world,” says Augustine (de utilitate credendi, 7, vol. viii. 76, ed. Migne), “the schools of the rhetoricians are alive with the din of crowds of students.”
[29] There is an interesting instance, at a rather later time, of the poverty of two students, one of whom afterwards became famous, Prohæresius and Hephæstion: they had only one ragged gown between them, so that while one went to lecture, the other had to stay at home in bed (Eunap. Prohæres. p. 78).
[30] Diss. 1. 9. 19.
[31] Ib. 2, 21. 12; 3. 24. 54.
[32] Ib. 2. 21. 12, 13, 15; 3. 24. 22, 24.
[33] Ib. 3. 16. 14, 15.
[34] Ib. 1. 26. 9.
[35] De audiendo, 13, vol. ii. p. 45. The passage is abridged above.