Schools of Gaul in the last century of the Western Empire

by T. J. Haarhoff

[671] Cf. Aug. Confess. vi. 2. Monnica still practises pagan rites.

[672] Cf. the marks ‘N’ (nefastus), ‘NP’ (= N. F. P., Nefas, feriae publicae), put opposite the festival days in the calendar.

[673] Aug. Confess. ix. 2. Jullian includes the Vindemia in his calendar for the fourth century. Gothofredus (ad Cod. Theod. ii. 8. 18) notes that these holidays were movable. ‘Statae hae feriae non fuerunt verum ex consuetudine cuiusque loci praesides provinciarum has ferias statuebant.’

[674] Martial, x. 62.

[675] Liban. Or. i. 199; Ep. 382.

[676] Liban. Ep. 394; Sievers, op. cit., pp. 26 ff.

[677] Liban. Or. ii. 277. It was regarded as part of the boy’s education to learn how to behave at funerals.

[678] Liban. Or. ii. 271.

[679] Sidon. Ep. i. 5. 10.

[680] Ep. i. 9. 1.