[275] Sozom. vii. c. 12; Gibbon, c. xxvii.; De Broglie, “L’Église et l’Empire,” vi. p. 93.
[276] Cod. Theod. xvi. v. 7, lib. 1, 2.
[277] Cod. Theod. xvi. v. 10, lib. 7, 9. Sozomen informs us (vii. 22) that Eugenius, the usurper, after the death of Valentinian II., was persuaded by divinations to take up arms.
[278] Sozomen, vii. 15. Theod. v. 21.
[279] The most distinguished scholar, and orator, and one of the most upright statesmen of his time—quæstor, prætor, and proconsul of Africa.
[280] Fragments of his speeches preserved in Mai’s collection, vol. i.
[281] Ambrose, Op. vol. ii. Ep. 18.
[282] Libanius: Pro templis non exscind. The oration was certainly not spoken before the Emperor, and probably not even sent to him.
[283] Cod. Theod. xii. 104-115.
[284] Theodor. v. 19. A funeral oration on her and the infant was pronounced by Gregory Nyssen, Op. vol. iii. pp. 515, 527, 533.