[2] v. 348 _et sqq._ S. Jerome (_Ep._ lx.) refers to his death and tells how his head was carried on a pike to Constantinople. [3] Or at least connived at his death; see Zosimus v. 11. 5. [4] For an adverse (and probably unfair) view of Stilicho see Jerome, _Ep._ cxxiii. § 17. [5] _C.I.L._ vi. 1710 (=Dessau 2949). Now in the Naples Museum. [Cl.] Claudiani v.c. | [Cla]udio Claudiano v.c., tri|[bu]no et notario, inter ceteras | [de]centes artes prae[g]loriosissimo | [po]etarum, licet ad memoriam sem|piternam carmina ab eodem | scripta sufficiant, adtamen | testimonii gratia ob iudicii sui | [f]idem, dd. nn. Arcadius et Honorius | [fe-]licissimi et doctissimi | imperatores senatu petente | statuam in foro divi Traiani | erigi collocarique iusserunt. Εἰν ἑνὶ Βιργιλίοιο νόον | καί Μοῦσαν Ὁμήρου | Κλαυδιανὸν Ῥώμη καὶ | βασιλῆς ἔθεσαν. v.c. = vir clarissimus, _i.e._ (roughly) The Rt. Hon. dd. nn. = domini nostri. The inscription may be translated:--To Claudius Claudianus v.c., son of Claudius Claudianus v.c., tribune and notary (_i.e._ Permanent Secretary), master of the ennobling arts but above all a poet and most famous of poets, though his own poems are enough to ensure his immortality, yet, in thankful memory of his discretion and loyalty, their serene and learned majesties, the Emperors Arcadius and Honorius have, at the instance of the senate, bidden this statue to be raised and set up in the Forum of the Emperor Trajan of blessed memory. Rome and her kings--to one who has combined A Homer’s music with a Vergil’s mind. [6] xxv. 7. [7] John Lydus (_De magistr._ i. 47) writes οὖτος ὁ Παφλαγών, but this, as Birt has shown, is merely an abusive appellation. [8] Sid. Ap. _Carm._ ix. 274. [9] viii. 570 _et sqq._ [10] Carm. min. corp. xix. 3: _cf._ also Carm. min. corp. xxii. 20. [11] Carm. min. corp. xli. 13. [12] xxiii. 23. [13] Carm. min. corp. xl. and xli.; see ref. to Via Flaminia in xl. 8. [14] Praef. ii. 50. [15] vi. 17. [16] iv. 15. [17] _Cf._ xxii. 291 _et sqq._ [18] Carm. min. xxi. [19] xxiii. 23. [20] So Birt, _Praef._ p. xlii. note 1. [21] It should perhaps be mentioned that this date is disputed: see Crees, _Claudian as an Historical Authority_, pp. 175 _et sqq._ [22] xxv. 4 “Pythia … domus.” [23] This suggestion is Vollmer’s: see his article on Claudian in Pauly-Wissowa, III. ii. p. 2655. [24] Still more striking is the comparison of Claudian’s latinity with that of his contemporary, the authoress of the frankly colloquial _Peregrinatio ad loca sancta_ (see Grandgent, _Vulgar Latin_, p. 5: Wölfflin, “Über die Latinität der P. ad l. sancta,” in _Archiv für lat. Lexikographie_, iv. 259).