[75] Such is that otherwise elegant epitaph on Fl. Merobaudes, of the year 435 A.D. "Æque forti et docto viro, tam facere laudanda quam aliorum facta laudare præcipuo. Castrensi experientia claro, facundia vol otiosorum studia supergresso, cui a crepundiis par virtutis et eloquentiæ cura. Ingenium ita fortitudini ut doctrinæ natum, stilo et gladio pariter exercuit, nec in umbra vel latebris mentis vigorem torpere passus. Inter arma literis militabat et in Alpibus acuebat eloquium. Ideo illi cessit in proemium non verbena vilis nec otiosa hedera, honor capitis Heliconius, sed imago ære formata, quo rari exempli viros, seu in castris probatos, seu optimos vatum, antiquitas honorabat." This inscription was engraved on the base of a statue dug out of the Forum Ulpii at Rome, in the beginning of the present century. Fragments of the poetry of Merobaudes, and his Panegyric on the consulship of Aëtius have been found by Niebuhr in a MS. at St. Gal, and are published in the Corp. Script. Hist. Byzant. vol. xxiv. The Christianity of Merobaudes, like that of Boethius, is ambiguous. [76] Henzen, 7374. [77] Gruter, p. 624. [78] Gruter, p. 654. [79] Anthol. Meyer, 1228. [80] Eckhel, Doctr. Num. pl. II. vol. v. p. 90. [81] Orelli, 4657. [82] Anthol. iv. 231. [83] Gruter, p. 718. [84] Gruter, p. 1000. Anthol. iv. 222. [85] Anthol. iv. 265. [86] Anthol. ii. 466. [87] Orelli, 4609. [88] Orelli, 2813. Several examples may be seen in Gruter, p. 663. _Tata_, for father, is still in use among the lower classes in Rome. See Bunsen, Philosophy of Universal History, vol. i. p. 103. [89] Orelli, 2815. [90] Gruter, p. 733, 9. More correctly in Meyer, Anthol. 1403. [91] Noctes Att. 1, 6. [92] Gruter, p. 769, 9. [93] Fabretti, p. 252. [94] Orelli, 4658. [95] Fabretti, p. 267. [96] Gruter, p. 797. [97] Orelli, 4623. [98] Fabretti, p. 275, where many similar examples are collected. [99] Gruter, p. 813, 3. [100] Gruter, p. 1036, 2. Liberties are taken with prosody in this as in other poetical epitaphs. [101] Gruter, p. 758, 4. [102] Gruter, p. 435, 2. [103] See his exhortation in Gellius, Noct. Att. 12, 1. [104] Fabretti, p. 187. That feeding by hand was also common among the Romans is evident from the occurrence of earthen bottles used for this purpose. The Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society contains several specimens of them. See also the Abbé Cochet's Normandie Souterraine, p. 130. [105] Orelli, 4604. [106] Orelli, 2660. [107] Gruter, p. 607. Meyer, Anthologia, 1274. [108] Antholog. iv. 402. [109] Gruter, p. 337. Comp. Gibbon, c. xl. 2. [110] Gruter, p. 820. The hands uplifted in protest are sculptured on the monument. [111] Gruter, p. 908. [112] Reines, p. 709. [113] Orelli, 4796. [114] [Greek: On hoi theoi philousin apothnêskei neos.] Menander, [Greek: Dis Exapatôntos]. Gruter, p. 688. [115] Orelli, 4829. [116] Ibid., 4852. [117] Ibid., 5070. [118] Maitland on the Catacombs. Its date is A.D. 472.