317 Sismondi, _Hist. de la Chute de l’Empire romain_, tome ii. pp. 52-54; Milman, _Hist. of Latin Christianity_, vol. ii. p. 213. The Monophysites were greatly afflicted because, after the conquest, the Mohammedans tolerated the orthodox believers as well as themselves, and were unable to appreciate the distinction between them. In Gaul, the orthodox clergy favoured the invasions of the Franks, who, alone of the barbarian conquerors of Gaul, were Catholics, and St. Aprunculus was obliged to fly, the Burgundians desiring to kill him on account of his suspected connivance with the invaders. (Greg. _Tur._ ii. 23.) 318 Dean Milman says of the Church, “if treacherous to the interests of the Roman Empire, it was true to those of mankind.”—_Hist. of Christianity_, vol. iii. p. 48. So Gibbon: “If the decline of the Roman Empire was hastened by the conversion of Constantine, the victorious religion broke the violence of the fall and mollified the ferocious temper of the conquerors.”—Ch. xxxviii. 319 Observe with what a fine perception St. Augustine notices the essentially unchristian character of the moral dispositions to which the greatness of Rome was due. He quotes the sentence of Sallust: “Civitas, incredibile memoratu est, adeptâ libertate quantum brevi creverit, tanta cupido gloriæ incesserat;” and adds: “Ista ergo laudis aviditas et cupido gloriæ multa illa miranda fecit, laudabilia scilicet atque gloriosa secundum hominum existimationem ... causa honoris, laudis et gloriæ consuluerunt patriæ, in qua ipsam gloriam requirebant, salutemque ejus saluti suæ præponere non dubitaverunt, pro isto uno vitio, id est, amore laudis, pecuniæ cupiditatem et multa alia vitia comprimentes.... Quid aliud amarent quam gloriam, qua volebant etiam post mortem tanquam vivere in ore laudantium?”—_De Civ. Dei_, v. 12-13. 320 “Præter majorum cineres atque ossa, volucri Carpento rapitur pinguis Damasippus et ipse, Ipse rotam stringit multo sufflamine consul; Nocte quidem; sed luna videt, sed sidera testes Intendunt oculos. Finitum tempus honoris Quum fuerit, clara Damasippus luce flagellum Sumet.”—Juvenal, _Sat._ viii. 146. _ 321 Nat. Quæst._ iv. 13. _Ep._ 78. 322 “Pessimum vitæ scelus fecit, qui id [aurum] primus induit digitis ... quisquis primus instituit cunctanter id fecit, lævisque manibus, latentibusque induit.”—Plin. _Hist. Nat._ xxxiii. 4. 323 See a curious passage in his _Apologia_. It should be said that we have only his own account of the charges brought against him. 324 The history of false hair has been written with much learning by M. Guerle in his _Éloge des Perruques_.