[9] Sidonius was born in Lyons; the epithet "arvernus" refers to his bishopric of Clermont, anciently called Arverni.
[10] See note above, p. [141].
[11] Quintilian's Institutes, bk. x., ch. i., §§ 109-112.
[12] I.e., the metrical epistles.
[13] Familiarum rerum liber. See below, p. [153] sqq.
[14] A reference to the plague of 1348; see above, pp. [113], [114.]
[15] This list of woes seems to have been suggested by Cicero's experience rather than his own.
[16] See the letters to Cicero, given below, p. [239] sqq.
[17] Petrarch elsewhere expresses doubts whether Seneca really wrote this tragedy which, it is now generally believed, is by another hand. See Fam., xxiv., 5.
[18] See below, [Part III]., for examples of these letters.