[966]. Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 318, n. 1, points out that an initiate might become Pater Patrum immediately after being made Pater or Pater sacrorum simply. This appears from the two monuments both dated the same year of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, op. cit. II. p. 95.
[967]. See Ammianus Marcellinus Bk XXII. c. 7, for his life under Julian. His career is well described by Dill, Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire, 1899, pp. 17, 18, 30, 154, 155.
[968]. Cumont, T. et M. II. p. 100, inscr. 35; p. 98, inscr. 24.
[969]. Op. cit. II. p. 130, inscr. 225; p. 132, inscr. 239; p. 134, inscr. 257. The two decurions may of course have been decurions of the rite only, as to which see op. cit. I. p. 326.
[970]. Op. cit. I. p. 324: Tertullian, Praescpt. c. 40.
[971]. Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 65. Thirty-five seems to be the greatest number belonging to any one chapel.
[972]. Op. cit. I. p. 327.
[973]. Amm. Marcell. passim.
[974]. Neander, Ch. Hist. III. p. 136.
[975]. Marinus, vita Procli, pp. 67, 68; Neander, op. cit. III. p. 136.