[727] _Op. cit._ [728] Cf. _Prof._ xxiv. 6 ‘meque dehinc facto rhetore,’ etc. [729] _Op. cit._, p. 122. [730] Trans. Hazlitt, i. 291. [731] _Cambridge Mediaeval History_, i. 30. [732] As the _Notitia Imperii Romani_ shows. [733] _Cambridge Mediaeval History_, i. 48. [734] _Prof._ i. [735] For instances see _Cambridge Mediaeval History_, i. 396. [736] Guizot, _op. cit._, i. 301 ff. Cf. Denk, _op. cit._, p. 164. [737] Cf. the frequent flight of curiales, and the laws in the _Cod. Theod._ about it. Also the harsh personal restrictions. A curial could not sell slaves or land except by permission of the governor of the province, _Cod. Theod._ xii. 3. 1. He could not bequeath his fortune to a man in another curia except by payment of a heavy duty to his original curia, _Cod. Theod._ xii. 1. 107. Emperors condemn miscreants, e.g. men who have rendered themselves unfit for military service by chopping off their thumbs, to enrolment in a curia, _Cambridge Mediaeval History_, i. 555. [738] _Cambridge Mediaeval History_, i. 547; cf. p. 51, ‘Egress from inherited membership was inhibited by the Government except in rare instances’. [739] _Cambridge Mediaeval History_, i. 70. [740] Cf. the description of Seronatus who descends on the pale country folk ‘ceu draco e specu’, Sidon. _Ep._ v. 13. Even the rich have officials and taxes on the brain. At the feast of St. Just it is specially mentioned as a blessing (_beatissimum_) that there was no talk ‘de potestatibus aut de tributis’, Sid. _Ep._ v. 17. 5. [741] _Cambridge Mediaeval History_, i. 51. [742] _Cod. Theod._ xiv. 9. 1. [743] Guizot, _op. cit._, i. 315. Cf. Vinogradoff in _Cambridge Mediaeval History_, i. 567. [744] ‘Singulis quibusque dignitatibus certum locum meritumque praescribsit (_sic_). Si quis igitur indebitum sibi locum usurpaverit, nulla se ignoratione defendat, sitque plane sacrilegii reus, qui divina praecepta neglexerit’, _Cod. Theod._ vi. 5. 2. [745] _Leges Visigothorum_, ed. Zeumer, e.g. v. 4. 11, 7. 10, 7. 17. [746] Jullian, _op. cit._, pp. 33 ff. [747] ‘Toutes les classes se retrouvaient égales quand il s’agissait d’apprendre ou d’enseigner; les rangs se nivelaient à l’école’, ibid. [748] Denk, _Gallo-fränk. Unterrichts- u. Bildungswesen_, p. 165. [749] _Röm. Gesch._ i. 892. [750] _Hist. de France_, i. 3. 391. [751] Aus. _Ep._ xiv. 95. [752] _Protrep._ 40. [753] _l.c._ The students at Autun are ‘frequentia _honestissimae_ iuventutis’, _Pro Instaur. Schol._ 5. [754] ‘Libertinae condicionis homines, numquam ad honores vel palatinam adspirare militiam permittemus’, _Cod. Theod._ iv. 10. 3. [755] e.g. _Cod. Theod._ xii. 19. 3. The heads of the classes (_ordines_) are warned not to let fugitives from the ‘curiae’ or ‘collegia’ hang about. [756] _Cod. Theod._ xiv. 1. 1.