History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3Gibbon, Edward
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
Gibbon, Edward
Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
22 (return) [ The beautiful lines of Claudian (in i. Cons.
Stilich. ii. 113) displays his genius; but the integrity of
Stilicho (in the military administration) is much more firmly
established by the unwilling evidence of Zosimus, (l. v. p.
345.)]
23 (return) [—Si bellica moles Ingrueret, quamvis annis et jure
minori,
Cedere grandaevos equitum peditumque magistros
Adspiceres. Claudian, Laus Seren. p. 196, &c. A modern general
would deem their submission either heroic patriotism or abject
servility.]
24 (return) [ Compare the poem on the first consulship (i.
95-115) with the Laus Serenoe (227-237, where it unfortunately
breaks off.) We may perceive the deep, inveterate malice of
Rufinus.]
25 (return) [—Quem fratribus ipse Discedens, clypeum
defensoremque dedisti. Yet the nomination (iv. Cons. Hon. 432)
was private, (iii. Cons. Hon. 142,) cunctos discedere... jubet;
and may therefore be suspected. Zosimus and Suidas apply to
Stilicho and Rufinus the same equal title of guardians, or
procurators.]
26 (return) [ The Roman law distinguishes two sorts of minority,
which expired at the age of fourteen, and of twenty-five. The one
was subject to the tutor, or guardian, of the person; the other,
to the curator, or trustee, of the estate, (Heineccius,
Antiquitat. Rom. ad Jurisprudent. pertinent. l. i. tit. xxii.
xxiii. p. 218-232.) But these legal ideas were never accurately
transferred into the constitution of an elective monarchy.]
27 (return) [ See Claudian, (i. Cons. Stilich. i. 188-242;) but
he must allow more than fifteen days for the journey and return
between Milan and Leyden.]
Chapter XXIX: Division Of Roman Empire Between Sons Of
Theodosius.—Part II.
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