[647] Marquardt Mommsen, Röm. Staatsverwaltung, iii., 2nd ed., 311 seqq.
[648] Such exclamations as “Bene vos! Bene te patriæ pater, Optime Cæsar!” were common. Ovid, Fasti, 2, 616-638. Valerius Max., 2, 1, 8. Martial., 9, 54. Bonghi, Die römischen Feste, translated by Ruhemunn, Vienna, 1892, 41.
[649] Tertullian., De Idol., c. 10.
[650] Augustin., Sermo, 190, 191; Opera, v.
[651] See the second Council of Tours, A.D. 567, can. 22.
[652] Rationale div. off., c. 83. Migne, Patr. Lat., ccii. 87.
[653] Greg. I., Epist. ad Mellitum, 11, 76 al.; 9, 71. Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxvii. 1215. Statements to the same effect are found in Augustin., Epist., 47; Theodoret, De Græc. aff. cur., 8; Sidonius Ap., Epist., 4, 15.
[654] Edited by Henschen, Acta SS. Boll. Junii VII.; Migne, Patr. Lat., xiii.; and recently by Mommsen in the Corpus Inscr. Lat., tit. i.
[655] The bishops of Sedunum attended the Councils of Maçon, and belonged, at a later date, to the province of the Tarantaise. Wiltsch, Kirchl. Geographie u. Statistik, i. 323, 355.
[656] Mabillon, De Lit. Gall., ii. 23. Migne, lxxii. 182; see also 472, and Duchesne, Origines du Culte Chrétien, 266 et seq.