[894] ‘Scaenici et scaenicae, qui in ultimo vitae ac necessitate cogente interitus imminentis, ad dei summi sacramenta properarunt ... nulla posthac in theatralis spectaculi conventione revocentur’, _Cod. Theod._ xv. 7. 1, A.D. 371. [895] _Cod. Theod._ xv. 12. 1. [896] _Cod. Theod._ xv. 12. 2, A.D. 357. [897] _Cod. Theod._ ix. 40. 8, A.D. 365. [898] Theodoret, _Hist. Eccles._ v. 26. [899] Glover, _Life and Letters_, p. 161. Cf. Sym. _Ep._ iv. 12, ix. 126. [900] Cf. Sidon. _Ep._ vi. 12. 1, 5. [901] _Cod. Iust._ xi. 26. Cf. _Cod. Theod._ xiv. 18. 1. [902] It is true that pagan philosophers like Epicurus had women among their intimates, but their recognition was as much of an anomaly in the ancient world as they themselves were. With Christianity the recognition claimed a more general acceptance, though the claim was subsequently disregarded and never fully admitted. [903] Cf. _Camb. Med. Hist._ i. 168. [904] ‘Indecens visum. Repudiatis fiscalibus, propriis cum sumptibus vivere maluerunt’, Sulpic. Sever. _Chron._ ii. 41. [905] Sid. _Ep._ vi. 1, viii. 11, ix. 11. [906] Sid. _Ep._ iv. 17. [907] _Ep._ iv. 17. 3 ‘Lupus ... Auspicius quorum doctrinae abundanti eventilandae nec consultatio tua sufficit’. [908] _Ep._ vi. 12; ii. 10. 2; iv. 25. 5. [909] _Ep._ ix. 3. [910] _Ep._ vii. 1; iv. 9. 6; v. 14. 2. [911] _Ep._ vi. 8; vii. 2. 7, 11; ix. 4. [912] _Ep._ vii. 9; iv. 18. [913] Montalembert, _Monks of the West_ (transl.), i. 205. [914] _Antidosis_, 231. See Hubbell, _The Influence of Isocrates on Cicero, Dionysius, and Aristides_. [915] Ibid. 276. The subjects must be καλὰς καὶ φιλανθρώπους καὶ περὶ τῶν κοινῶν πραγμάτων. [916] Pichon, _Études sur l’histoire de la litt. lat._ i. 42, is too severe on Isocrates’ theoretical and unpractical judgement. [917] Gilbert Murray, _Ancient Greek Literature_, p. 344. [918] Ὅσῳ περ ἄν τις ἐρρωμενεστέρως ἐπιθνμῇ πείθειν τοὺς ἀκούοντας, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον ἀσκήσει καλὸς κἀγαθὸς εἶναι, καὶ παρὰ τοῖς πολίταις εὐδοκιμεῖν, _Antidosis_, 278 (ed. Blass). [919] _Antidosis_, 253. [920] ‘Illa vis autem eloquentiae tanta est, ut omnium rerum virtutum officiorum omnisque naturae quae mores hominum, quae animos quae vitam continet, originem vim mutationesque teneat, eadem mores leges iura describat, rem publicam regat, omniaque ad quamcumque rem pertineant ornate copioseque dicat’, _De Oratore_, iii. 20. 76. [921] Ibid. iii. 15. 57. In Homeric days ‘neque diiuncti doctores, sed idem erant vivendi praeceptores atque dicendi’. Cf. 59 ‘ancipitem _quae non potest esse seiuncta_, faciendi dicendique sapientiam’. [922] Ibid. i. 6. 20. [923] Ibid. iii. 23. 87, 89.