[533] The churches said to have been built by Constantine are referred to in the life of Pope Sylvester; Lib. Pontif. (Duchesne). St. Peter's and St. Paul's are mentioned by Procopius, De Bel. Goth., i, 22; ii, 4, etc.
[534] Ammianus, xiv, 6.
[535] Ibid., xxviii, 4.
[536] Ammianus, xxviii, 4. The modern craze for "Bridge" may be compared, and with the aid of Father Vaughan's denunciations of the "Smart Set" at the West End, the parallel might be carried further. But all this is merely a subsidiary part of our social fabric.
[537] Ibid., xiv, 6.
[538] Ibid., xxviii, 4.
[539] Ibid., xiv, 6.
[540] Ammianus, xiv, 6. Garments of this pictorial class were of course common to the whole Empire, and were inveighed against in the East about the same time by Asterius, Hom. 1 (Migne, S. G., xl, 165).
[541] Ibid., xxviii, 4.
[542] Ibid., xiv, 6.