[388] Testam. D. N. Jesu Chr., ed. Rahmani (Mainz, 1899), i. 28; iv. 67, 101. The discussion of the date of this document cannot be entered into here from want of space.
[389] Cod. Theodos., 2, 8, 20, 25; 5, 2; Cod. Justin., 3, 12, 6.
[390] See [Appendix No. viii].
[391] Peregr. Silviæ, 60, ed. Geyer, c. 26: “Quadragesimæ de Epiphania valde cum summo honore hic celebrantur, etc.”
[392] Theophanes, Chronogr., ed. Bonn, 345 ad ann. 534.
[393] Nicephorus, Hist. Eccl., 17, 28: καὶ τὴν τοῦ σωτῆρος ὑπαπάντην ἄρτι πρώτως ἁπανταχοῦ τῆς γῆς ἑορτάζεσθαι τάττει. See Muralt, Chronogr. Byz., St Petersburg, 1855, i. 134.
[394] Sacr. Gelasianum, 2, 8, among the Natalitia Sanctorum. Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxiv. 1158. There is no mention of a procession in the Gregorian sacramentary either.
[395] Morcelli, i. 86, 288.
[396] The statement was made by Baronius (ad ann. 534), repeated by Pagi, and, in recent times, by Wissowa (Röm. Staatsverwaltung, iii. 446) and by Usener (332), but rejected by Grisar (Gesch. Roms., i. 455).
[397] Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxviii.