Schools of Gaul in the last century of the Western Empire

by T. J. Haarhoff

[1144] Cf. ix. 19. 1. A Curial is to lose his social status as a punishment.

[1145] Euchar. 87.

[1146] Hist. de France, i. 3. 421.

[1147] C. I. L. xiii. 1. 1, 1862, 2200, 2205; xii. 2039, &c.

[1148] Cf. those of Sidonius and Ausonius.

[1149] Ep. 88.

[1150] Ep. 88 ‘Quid mihi prodest scire agellum dividere ... simus hoc titulo rusticiore contenti: O virum bonum’.

[1151] Cf. the modern controversy about religious education, and the criticism that the dry facts are brought out in scriptural teaching rather than the spirit of the Bible.

[1152] Pro Instaur. Scholis, 14.

[1153] ‘Credo igitur, tali Caesar ... instinctu, tanto studium litterarum favore prosequitur, ut non minus ad providentiam numinis sui existimet pertinere bene dicendi quam recte faciendi disciplinas, et pro divina illa intelligentia mentis aeternae, sentiat litteras omnium fundamenta esse virtutum, utpote continentiae, modestiae, vigilantiae, patientiae magistras’, Pro Instaur. Scholis, 8. Cicero’s actual words in de Orat. iii. 15. 57 ‘illa doctrina ... et recte faciendi et bene dicendi magistra’.