[212] i.e. ‘The Britons had a natural capacity superior to that of the Gauls ... they only needed the same training to make them better orators’ (Furneaux, ad loc.).
[213] Praef. Herac. 8.
[214] Noct. Att. xv. 1.
[215] ‘Quasi ex lingua prorsum eius capti prosequebamur,’ ibid. xvi. 3.
[216] Noct. Att. xviii. 5.
[217] Ibid. xvii. 5.
[218] Monnard, De Gallorum Oratorio Ingenio, 37.
[219] Monnard, l.c.
[220] Elegantiora studia ... novas quasi receperunt vires, et insignem recuperandam linguae promiserunt dignitatem, quod in eius (Latinae linguae) cultum et optimas litteras perpoliendas propagandasque cum veteribus magistris sanctioris doctrinae praesides conspirarent’, Funccius, De Vegeta Latinae Linguae Senectute.
[221] ‘Rhetoribus et philosophis per omnes provincias salaria et honores detulit’, Script. Hist. Aug. iii. 11. 3.