[425] Cf. Denk, _Gallo-fränk. Unterrichts- u. Bildungswesen_, p. 133. [426] _Confess._ i. 17. [427] _Dictiones_, xxviii. [428] Ibid. xxvi. [429] Ennodius, _Dict._ xx. [430] ‘Titianus et Calvus ... qui themata omnia de Vergilio elicuerunt et deformarunt ad dicendi usum, in exemplo controversiarum has duas posuerunt adlocutiones, dicentes Venerem agere statu absolutivo, cum dicit Iunoni “causa fuisti periculorum his quibus Italiam fata concesserant”; Iunonem vero niti statu relativo, per quem ostendit Troianos non sua causa laborare sed Veneris’, _Verg._ x. 18. [431] _Artis Rhetoricae_ lib. iii. [432] _Institutiones Oratoriae._ [433] ‘Contuli in ordinem ea quae fere de oratoria arte traduntur, secundum institutum magistrorum meorum ... ita tamen ut ex arbitrio meo aliqua praeterirem, pleraque ordine immutato referrem, non nulla ex aliis quae necessaria videbantur insererem’, Pref. (Teuffel-Schwabe, ii, § 427. 6). [434] Cf. the _Suasoriae_ with the _Dictiones_ of Ennodius. [435] e.g. Liban. _Ep._ 1313, ed. Reiske. [436] Philostrat. _Via Soph._, p. 8, ed. Kayser. [437] Seeck’s ed. of the _Letters_, p. 309. [438] I owe the suggestion that the _Rhetores Graeci_ might serve as illustrations of the rhetorical methods of the time to Prof. J. A. Smith of Magdalen. [439] Quintil. i. 9. [440] Blümner, _Privatalterthümer_, 327. [441] Quintil. i. 10. 1. [442] Theon. _Prog._ i. Cf. Quintil, i. 9 ‘Adiciamus eorum (i.e. Grammaticorum) curae quaedam dicendi primordia, quibus aetates nondum rhetorem capientes instituant’. [443] _Ep._ 985. [444] _De Theone Hermogene Aphthonioque Progymnasmatum Scriptoribus_, p. 14. [445] Ibid., p. 34. [446] Ibid., p. 24. [447] Pauly-Wissowa, s.v. Aphthonius. [448] _Rhetores Graeci_, vol. ii, ed. Spengel. [449] _Instit._ ii. 4. [450] Strange. Perhaps the meaning is bright like flowers, brilliant, pointed. But more likely, as Prof. Murray has pointed out to me, the author is thinking of embroidery. The boy’s composition must be rich like a gold-embroidered cloth, but also compact like a pattern. [451] Conringius, _De Antiquis Academiis_, i. 17; Gothofredus, _Ad Rescriptum Gratiani Anni_ 376; Ritter, _Ad Cod. Theod._ xiii. 3. 11. [452] _Scriptt. Hist. Aug._ iii, ch. 11, ed. Peter. [453] _Euchar._ 67. [454] _Prof._ xxvi. [455] _Prof._ xv. [456] Hinc etiam placidis schola consona disciplinis dogmaticas agitat placido certamine lites, hinc omnis certat dialectica turba sophorum.—_Eclog._ iv. 15. [457] _Ep._ ix. 9. 15. [458] _Carm._ xv. 41.—Cf. ii. 156 ff. [459] _Ep._ iv. 1. 2. [460] ‘Voluptuosissimum reputans si forte oborta quarumpiam quaestionum insolubilitate labyrinthica scientiae suae thesauri eventilarentur’, _Ep._ iv. 11. [461] _Ep._ iv. 9. 1. Cf. iii. 6. 2 ‘Vos consectanei vestri Plotini dogmatibus inhaerentes ad profundum intempestivae quietis otium Platonicorum palaestra rapuisset’. _Carm._ xiv, Intro. ‘tibi et complatonicis tuis nota sunt’. [462] _Ep._ ix. 9. 13.