[297] Cf. Jung, _De Scholis Romanis in Gallia Comata_, p. 5. [298] _Prof._ xxv. 8. [299] _Praef._ 2. [300] Lavisse, _Hist. de France_, I. ii. 395. [301] _Pro Instaur. Schol._ 5. Cf. 20 ‘antiqua litterarum sede’. [302] Cf. Lavisse, _Hist. de France_, _loc. cit._ [303] _Mosella_, 383. [304] _Misopogon_, 342, ed. Hertlein: ἡ Κελτῶν ... ἀγροικία. [305] _Mis._ 348 C, and compare 349 D. [306] ὥσπερ τις κυνηγέτης ἀγρίοις ὁμιλῶν καὶ συμπλεκόμενος θηρίοις, ibid. 359 Β. [307] Ibid. 350 D. [308] _Epigr._ ix. 32. [309] Mart. _Epigr._ v. 1. 10 ‘et tumidus Galla credulitate fruar’. Strabo, iv. 4. 2, speaks of the race as ἁπλοῦν (_ingenio simplici_). [310] Migne, _Pat. Lat._ xxvi. 355. [311] Jullian, _Rev. intern. de l’Enseignement_, 1893. [312] _Orat._ iii. 124. [313] _B. G._ vii. 22. [314] Diodor. v. 31. [315] _Stromatum_ lib. i; Migne, _Pat. Graeca_, viii. 776, 777. [316] _Pan. de Quarto Consul. Honor._ 392 ‘animosa tuas ut Galli a leges audiat’. [317] _Bell. Gall._ iv. 5. Cf. vii. 42. [318] _Epigr._ viii ff. [319] _Prof._ x. [320] Jung, _De Scholis Roman._, p. 15. [321] Cf. Tac. _Agric._ 11; Strabo, iv. 4. 2. [322] Liban. _Orat._, ed. Reiske, iii. 255 ff., and cf. _Or._ 32 πρὸς τὰς παιδαγωγοῦ βλασφημίας. [323] Et te de genetrice vagientem tinxerunt (_sc._ Musae) vitrei vado Hippocrenes, tunc hac mersus aqua loquacis undae pro fluctu mage litteras bibisti. _Carm._ xxiii. 206 (vitrei. He apparently regards ‘Hippocrene’ as masc. as in _Carm._ ix. 285). [324] Ibid. 210-14. [325] Ibid. 439. [326] Ibid. 490. [327] _Ep._ iv. 12. 1. [328] Cf. verses 89 ff. and 121 ff. [329] Studiumque insigne parentum permixtis semper docta exercere peritum blanditiis, gnaramque apto moderamine curam insinuare mihi morum instrumenta bonorum, ingenioque rudi celerem conferre profectum.—(_Eucharisticon_, verse 60, ed. Brandes.) [330] _Euchar._ 65. [331] Probably his early teaching was in the hands of a household slave. Cf. Rocafort, _Paulin de Pella_, p. 32. [332] Rocafort, _Paulin de Pella_, xi, thinks the reference is merely to ‘locutions inusitées’. ἀκοινονόητα is read by Brandes, though ἀκοινώνητα, except for metrical difficulties, would seem better. [333] Verse 66. [334] _l.c._ 79. [335] Not eighteen, as Rocafort says. [336] _l.c._ 117. [337] Gilbert Murray, _Religio Grammatici_, pp. 10 ff. [338] _Protrepticon_, 45 ff. [339] Cf. Quintilian’s emphasis on starting with Homer (_Inst._ x. 1. 46). He is the poet _par excellence_: ‘omnibus eloquentiae partibus exemplum et ortum dedit’. Not to be able to read him is a mark of utter ignorance. Cf. viii. 5. 9; xii. 11. 21. [340] Ibid. 46, 47. [341] Verses 56-60. [342] _De Idol._ 10. Cf. Aug. _Confess._ i. 14. 23. [343] He had read Vergil ‘unum omnium maxime veterum auctorum atque haud scio an unicum’. Brandes, _Corp. Scriptt. Lat. Eccl. Paul. Pell._, p. 279.