[277] 'Et leges gentium quaerat.' But how was the law of nations to be enforced?
[278] Notice the use of the word modernus here, a post-classical word, which apparently occurs first in Cassiodorus.
[279] 'Origo ipsa jam gloria est: laus nobilitati connascitur. Idem vobis est dignitatis, quod vitae principium. Senatus enim honor amplissimus vobiscum gignitur, ad quem vix maturis aetatibus pervenitur.'
[280] 'Et quot edidit familiae juvenes, tot reddidit curiae consulares.'
[281] iii. 145, n. 4.
[282] Note these three classes; as also in [ii. 17].
[283] I have not been able to identify this place.
[284] 'Moderna sine priorum imminutione desideramus erigere.'
[285] 'Platonias.' This, which is the spelling found in Nivellius' edition, seems to be a more correct form than the 'platomas' of Garet. Ducange, who has a long article on the subject, refers the word to the Greek πλατυνιον.
[286] Possibly the columns in S. Apollinare Deutro may have been some of those here mentioned.