[371] Cf. e.g. Diocletian’s Edict, A.D. 301 (Mommsen, Berichte der ... Sächs. Gesellschaft, iii. 56).

[372] Cf. Macrob. i. 24. 5 ‘videris enim mihi (says Symmachus to Evangelus, whom he accuses of shallowness in a Vergilian discussion) ita adhuc Vergilianos habere versus, qualiter eos pueri magistris praelegentibus canebamus’; and Suet. Gram. 16.

[373] Cf. Quintil. i. 8. 1.

[374] Rutherford, History of Annotation, p. 12, quoted Murray, Religio Grammatici, p. 16.

[375] Ibid.

[376]

Tu flexu et acumine vocis

innumeros numeros doctis accentibus effer

adfectusque impone legens. Distinctio sensum

auget, et ignavis dant intervalla vigorem.’—Protrep. 47 ff.