[739] Cambridge Mediaeval History, i. 70.
[740] Cf. the description of Seronatus who descends on the pale country folk ‘ceu draco e specu’, Sidon. Ep. v. 13. Even the rich have officials and taxes on the brain. At the feast of St. Just it is specially mentioned as a blessing (beatissimum) that there was no talk ‘de potestatibus aut de tributis’, Sid. Ep. v. 17. 5.
[741] Cambridge Mediaeval History, i. 51.
[742] Cod. Theod. xiv. 9. 1.
[743] Guizot, op. cit., i. 315. Cf. Vinogradoff in Cambridge Mediaeval History, i. 567.
[744] ‘Singulis quibusque dignitatibus certum locum meritumque praescribsit (sic). Si quis igitur indebitum sibi locum usurpaverit, nulla se ignoratione defendat, sitque plane sacrilegii reus, qui divina praecepta neglexerit’, Cod. Theod. vi. 5. 2.
[745] Leges Visigothorum, ed. Zeumer, e.g. v. 4. 11, 7. 10, 7. 17.
[746] Jullian, op. cit., pp. 33 ff.
[747] ‘Toutes les classes se retrouvaient égales quand il s’agissait d’apprendre ou d’enseigner; les rangs se nivelaient à l’école’, ibid.
[748] Denk, Gallo-fränk. Unterrichts- u. Bildungswesen, p. 165.