[365] Ambr. de ob. Val.
[366] Theod. v. 24. Socr. v. 25. Sozom. vii. 24. De Broglie, vi. 8.
[367] Ambr. Ep. lxi. lxii.
[368] Socr. v. 26. Sozom. vii. 29. Ambrosii Vita a Paul. scripta, de obit. Theod.
[369] Of course I do not forget that the idea and name of Roman Emperor and Roman Empire lived on for centuries more, but the elevation of Charles the Great was a revolt against the old order of things. He can hardly be regarded as a successor of Theodosius so truly as Theodosius was a successor of Augustus.
[370] Claud. de Bello Gild. 293.
[371] Claud. in Ruf. i. v. 137.
[372] Philostorg. xi. 3. For much assistance in his notices of Rufinus and Eutropius, the writer must pay his acknowledgments to the admirable work by Amédée Thierry: “Les trois ministres des fils de Théodose”—Rufin, Eutrope, Stilicon.
[373] Gibbon, iii. 67. Zosim. iv. 51.
[374] Claud. in Ruf. i. v. 220.