[881] ‘Qui divino cultui ministeria religionis impendunt ... ab omnibus omnino muneribus excusentur’, Cod. Theod. xvi. 2. 2 et passim.
[882] Cod. Theod. xvi. 2. 41.
[883] Ambrose and Augustine complain of their heavy judicial duties; cf. Camb. Med. Hist. i. 566.
[884] Sidon. Ep. vii. 7; so Lupus had successfully negotiated with Attila for Troyes; see Lavisse, Hist. de Gaule, ii. 1. 1, pp. 21 ff., L’Épiscopat en Gaule au IVᵉ et au Vᵉ Siècle. Cf. Rambaud, Histoire de la civilisation française, i. 74, and the whole of Bk. I, chap. iv (Gaule chrétienne) for a useful summary of the activities and relations of the Gallic Church at this time.
[885] Cf. St. Martin’s opposition to Avitianus and Valentinian. Hilary of Arles declared the prefect unworthy of the sacrament, and he had to retire.
[886] e.g. Epictetus and the Stoics, who taught the equality of mankind.
[887] Cod. Theod. iv. 8. 5.
[888] Cod. Theod. iv. 8. 6; iv. 8. 9; iv. 9. 1.
[889] Cod. Theod. ii. 25. 1.
[890] Cappadocia was practically the only place where slaves were still bred for export to Rome.