[157]

Ex hoc barbaricis abacta plectris

spernit senipedem stilum Thalia

ex quo septipedes videt patronos.—Carm. xii.

[158] Ep. vii. 14. 10.

[159] Ep. ad Diversos, lvii (ed. Peiper).

[160] i. 44.

[161] Cf. Boissier, La Fin du Paganisme, ii. 59 ff.; Fauriel, Hist. i. 440.

[162] Tac. An. xi. 24; Dessau, Inscrip. Lat. Sel. i. 212.

[163] Ammian. xv. 11. 5 ‘Aquitani ... facile in dicionem venere Romanam’.