[643] MSS. have invitus, impurius. Cole (Later Roman Education, 1909) conjectures imperitus, which certainly gives much better sense.

[644] Cod. Theod., ed. Mommsen and Meyer, xiv. 9. 1.

[645] Ritter, ad Cod. Theod. xiv. 9. 1.

[646] Prof. xvii.

[647] ‘Grammaticus circa curam sermonis versatur, et, si latius evagari vult, circa historias, iam ut longissime fines suos proferat, circa carmina (i.e. metrical studies: “Versuum lex ac modificatio”)’, Sen. Ep. xiii. 3. 3.

[648]

Quot commissa viris Romana Albanaque fata,

quotque doces horis quotque domi resides.—Ep. xviii. 9. 10.

[649] ‘Jeder trieb was er wollte, wie er wollte, in vielen oder wenigen Stunden’, op. cit., p. 122.

[650] Sievers, Libanios, p. 23.