Cum iam in republica nostra
cernamus plures Gothico florere favore,
tristia quaeque tamen perpessis antea multis,
pars ego magna fui quorum....
and cf. 311 ff.
[152] Paulin de Pella, p. xxiii.
[153] Cf. Sidon. Ep. v. 14.
[154] Fauriel, op. cit., i. 559.
[155] ‘Ut ... populos Galliarum ... teneamus ex fide etsi non tenemus foedere’, Ep. vii. 6. 10.
[156] Gröber, Grundriss der röm. Phil., i. 387. In order to indicate the nature of the barbarous Gothic with which he is surrounded, the poet contemptuously quotes some Gothic that came into his mind. The interpretation is not certain. Massmann (Zeitsch. f. d. Altertum, i. 379 ff.) suggests ‘Hail! provide us with meat and drink’. In any case, their language is incompatible with Latin poetry.