[524] Cf. Martial, v. 9, to the doctor after treatment: ‘non habui febrem, Symmache, nunc habeo’. [525] Cantor, _Die röm. Agrimensoren_, p. 139. [526] _Cod. Theod._ ii. 26. 1 (A.D. 330); ii. 26. 4 (A.D. 385). [527] _Cod. Theod._ vi. 34 (A.D. 405). [528] Mommsen, in _Die Schriften der röm. Feldmesser_, ii. 174. [529] Ibid. i. 50. So Aggenus Urbicus, who probably lived in the fourth century. [530] Ibid. i. 29. Gaul is frequently mentioned in the writings of these _agrimensores_, e.g. i. 29, 136, 307, 353, 368, &c. [531] _Ecl._ x. Cf. another version, _Ecl._ xi. [532] _Ecl._ xiii. [533] _Ecl._ xiv. [534] _Ecl._ xv. [535] _Ecl._ xix. [536] _Ecl._ xx, xxi. [537] _Ecl._ xxv. [538] _Ecl._ ii. 184 (ed. Peiper). [539] _Ecl._ iii, ibid. [540] _Ecl._ iv, ibid. [541] _De Orat._ ii. 86. [542] _Instit._ xi. 2. 1. [543] _De Orat._ ii. 87. [544] e.g. _Carm._ ix. 260 ff. [545] Cf. Denk, _op. cit._, p. 134. [546] _Protrep._, p. 261. [547] _Instit._ xi. 2. 34. [548] _Instit._ xi. 2. 21. [549] _Instit._ xi. 2. 18 ff. [550] _Prof._ i. 21-30. [551] _Prof._ xvi. 13. [552] Cf. Newman, _Idea of a University_, p. 127, ‘Memory is the first developed of the mental faculties’, and ff. [553] _Ep._ 1119. Cf. _Orat._ iii, p. 436 (ed. Reiske). It is interesting to compare in this connexion Athenian school records of the classical period, in which there is no evidence that children were beaten, with the mime of Herondas, in which the flogging of a boy is elaborately described. [554] _Confess._ i. 8 ff. [555] Ch. 12. [556] Cf. also _Confess._ i. 16, 17. [557] Cf. _Mosella_, 85 ff. [558] Ergo notas scripto, tolerasti, Pergame, vultu, et quas neglexit dextera, frons patitur.—_Epigr._ xxxvi, p. 325. [559] _Protrep._ 5. [560] _Protrep._ 9. [561] This is the accepted reading, though the ‘o’ of Chiron should of course be long. There is a _varia lectio_ ‘Achillea Chiron’. Glover remarks that Ausonius was prone to metrical blunders. [562] _Sat._ vii. 210 ‘metuens virgae iam grandis Achilles’. [563] Tu quoque ne metuas, quamvis schola verbere multo increpet et truculenta senex gerat ora magister ... ... nec te clamor plagaeque sonantes nec matutinis agitet formido sub horis.—_Protrep._ 24. [564] _Protrep._ 33. The flogging tradition persisted in the schools of Europe more or less unaltered at least thirteen centuries after Ausonius. [565] _Ep._ ii. 10, v. 5. [566] _Ep._ iv. 1. 3. [567] _Or._ i, p. 171 (Reiske). [568] Aug. _Confess._ i. 17. [569] Libanius complains of the conduct of his students, _Or._ i. 199. The lecture was often interrupted by cries, i. 63. Cf. _Ep._ 348 ἐγένετο θόρυβος καὶ κρότος. [570] Sievers, _Das Leben des Libanios_, p. 36, quoting Greg. Naz. _Or._ xx. [571] _Protrep._ 70. [572] _Eucharisticon_, 55 ff. [573] Auson. _Ep._ xxx. 30 ff. [574] Ibid. 39. Cf. the rest of the poem. [575] _Carm._ ix. 312. [576] _Ep._ iii. 1. 1.