[199] Cf. Freeman, _Historical Essays_, Ser. III, 119: ‘The panegyrist, at all events in addressing princes, some of whom were certainly very far from fools, is not likely to venture on much in the way of mere invention. He will leave out a great deal, he will exaggerate a great deal, he will pervert his own moral sense to praise a great deal that ought to be blamed: but the main facts which he asserts are pretty sure to have happened much as he states them. He is a fairly good authority for positive facts, bad for negative ones.’ Cf. Pichon, _Études sur la Litt. lat. dans les Gaules_, i. 74. [200] Suet. _Gram._ 3. [201] Ritter has pointed out that Maternus was a Gaul in his 1848 edition of _Dialog._, ch. 10. [202] Suet. _Gram._ 7. [203] Suet. _Gram._ 11 ‘peridoneus praeceptor maxime ad poeticam tendentibus’. [204] In the list of rhetors left by Suetonius, incorporated by Jerome in his translation of Eusebius’s _Chronicle_, which also includes Pacatus and Gabinianus who taught in the first century A.D. under Tiberius and Augustus at Massilia, Statius Ursulus of Toulouse, famous as a rhetor under Nero, and his contemporary Domitius Afer of Nîmes. [205] _Recueil des Hist._, i, Intro., p. lxxvii. [206] Cf. Bulaeus, _Hist. Univ. Paris_. i. 19. [207] ‘Les Prem. Univ. Franç.’, _Rev. intern. de l’Enseignement_, 1893. [208] Tac. _An._ xi. 24. [209] Mart. _Epigr._ ix. 99. Cf. Auson. _Parent._ iii. 11; _Prof._ xix. 4; Sidon. _Carm._ vii. 437. [210] _Epigr._ vii. 88: Me legit omnis ibi, senior iuvenisque puerque, et coram tetrico casta puella viro. [211] _Agric._ 21. Cf. Juv. xv. 111 ‘Gallia causidicos docuit facunda Britannos’. [212] i.e. ‘The Britons had a natural capacity superior to that of the Gauls ... they only needed the same training to make them better orators’ (Furneaux, _ad loc._). [213] _Praef. Herac._ 8. [214] _Noct. Att._ xv. 1. [215] ‘Quasi ex lingua prorsum eius capti prosequebamur,’ ibid. xvi. 3. [216] _Noct. Att._ xviii. 5. [217] Ibid. xvii. 5. [218] Monnard, _De Gallorum Oratorio Ingenio_, 37. [219] Monnard, _l.c._ [220] Elegantiora studia ... novas quasi receperunt vires, et insignem recuperandam linguae promiserunt dignitatem, quod in eius (Latinae linguae) cultum et optimas litteras perpoliendas propagandasque cum veteribus magistris sanctioris doctrinae praesides conspirarent’, Funccius, _De Vegeta Latinae Linguae Senectute_. [221] ‘Rhetoribus et philosophis per omnes provincias salaria et honores detulit’, _Script. Hist. Aug._ iii. 11. 3. [222] C. Fronto, _Reliquiae_, ed. Niebuhr, 271. [223] _Histoire litt. de la France_, i. 309. [224] Ibid. 314. [225] _Script. Hist. Aug._ xxviii. 30. 31. [226] Ibid. 44. 4. He favoured the study of law in the provinces.