[640] _Euchar._ 72. [641] _Protrep._, _l.c._, ‘lactantibus annis’. [642] _Euchar._ 121. [643] MSS. have _invitus_, _impurius_. Cole (_Later Roman Education_, 1909) conjectures _imperitus_, which certainly gives much better sense. [644] _Cod. Theod._, ed. Mommsen and Meyer, xiv. 9. 1. [645] Ritter, _ad Cod. Theod._ xiv. 9. 1. [646] _Prof._ xvii. [647] ‘Grammaticus circa curam sermonis versatur, et, si latius evagari vult, circa historias, iam ut longissime fines suos proferat, circa carmina (i.e. metrical studies: “Versuum lex ac modificatio”)’, Sen. _Ep._ xiii. 3. 3. [648] Quot commissa viris Romana Albanaque fata, quotque doces horis quotque domi resides.—_Ep._ xviii. 9. 10. [649] ‘Jeder trieb was er wollte, wie er wollte, in vielen oder wenigen Stunden’, _op. cit._, p. 122. [650] Sievers, _Libanios_, p. 23. [651] ‘Antemeridianas horas discipuli occupant’, _Confess._ vi. 11. [652] _Cod. Theod._ xiv. 9. 1. [653] Sidon. _Ep._ ii. 2. [654] _Confess._ i. 16. [655] Liban. _Ep._ 304. [656] _Ep._ iv. 11. 1. [657] _Protrep._ 1 ff. [658] _Ep._ ii. 2. [659] _Eclog._ xxiv. [660] _De Spectac._ 7. [661] Bulaeus, _Hist. Univ. Par._ i. 41 ff. [662] Sid. _Ep._ viii. 6. 5. [663] _Ep._ v. 17. 6. [664] Daremberg-Saglio, s.v. Feriae. [665] _Cod. Theod._ ii. 8. 1. [666] _Cod. Theod._ ii. 8. 18. [667] ‘Illos tantum manere feriarum dies fas erit quos geminis mensibus ad requiem laboris indulgentior annus accepit, aestivis fervoribus mitigandis aut autumnis fetibus decerpendis. Kalendarum quoque Ianuariarum consuetos dies otio mancipamus. His adicimus natalicios dies urbium maximarum Romae atque Constantinopolis....’, _Cod. Theod._ ii. 8. 19. [668] _Cod. Theod._ ii. 18. 20. Cf. _Cod. Theod._ ii. 8. 23, 25 (A.D. 409). [669] _Cod. Theod._ ii. 2. 21; ii. 18. 19. [670] Cf. the Christian Calendar 448, _C. I. L._ i, p. 335. Dedicated by Polemius Silvius to Eucherius. It shows nineteen pagan festivals. [671] Cf. Aug. _Confess._ vi. 2. Monnica still practises pagan rites. [672] Cf. the marks ‘N’ (_nefastus_), ‘NP’ (= N. F. P., _Nefas, feriae publicae_), put opposite the festival days in the calendar. [673] Aug. _Confess._ ix. 2. Jullian includes the Vindemia in his calendar for the fourth century. Gothofredus (_ad Cod. Theod._ ii. 8. 18) notes that these holidays were movable. ‘Statae hae feriae non fuerunt verum ex consuetudine cuiusque loci praesides provinciarum has ferias statuebant.’ [674] Martial, x. 62. [675] Liban. _Or._ i. 199; _Ep._ 382. [676] Liban. _Ep._ 394; Sievers, _op. cit._, pp. 26 ff. [677] Liban. _Or._ ii. 277. It was regarded as part of the boy’s education to learn how to behave at funerals. [678] Liban. _Or._ ii. 271. [679] Sidon. _Ep._ i. 5. 10. [680] _Ep._ i. 9. 1. [681] Aul. Gell. _N. A._ i. 9. 12. Bulaeus’s reference to a law of Charondas in this connexion rests on a false interpretation of Diodor. xii. 13. [682] _Rhetor._ 6.