Schools of Gaul in the last century of the Western Empire

by T. J. Haarhoff

[142] Ep. i. 2. 5 (§ 8).

[143] Ennod., Script. Eccles. Lat., p. 353.

[144] The acts and decrees of the Visigothic and Burgundian kings were in Latin, and they chose their secretaries from the Latin rhetoricians and poets. Sidonius speaks of documents drawn up by himself for the Gothic king (Ep. viii. 3). Thus the star of rhetoricians and grammarians rose high at the court of Theodoric.

[145] Cf. Camb. Mediaev. Hist., p. 291.

[146] Cf. Fauriel, Hist. de la Gaule mérid., i. 466.

[147] Ep. ii. 5; viii. 1.

[148] Sid. Ep. v. 7.

[149] Paulin. Euchar., verse 304.

[150] Paulin. Euchar., verses 289, 290.

[151] Vide 306: