[1113] _Ep._ iv. The authorship of this letter has been questioned. [1114] _Ep._ xxxii. 33 ‘Ergo frustra tanto tempore studuimus et saepe manum ferulae subduximus’. Cf. _c._ _Rufin._ iii. 6 ‘Nec tibi, ut dicis, ferulas adhibeo neque athenogeronta (_Senem discipulum_) meum scutica et plagis litteras docere contendo’. [1115] Sidon. _Ep._ vi. 1. [1116] ‘Bene in omnibus causis timor obtemperat disciplinae: qui pro hoc ipso, quod imminentes periculorum causas aut iras iudicum cavere novit, potestatem conservandae salutis obtinuit.... Omnia sub metu disciplinae vitia iacent’, Hom. I, La Bigne, _Patrologia Patrum_, vol. viii. [1117] _Acta SS. Ordin. Benedict._, Praef., lix. ff. [1118] Isidor. _Regula_, 6; Migne, _Pat. Lat._ lxxxiii. 874. [1119] _Vita Caesarii_, i. 9; Migne, lxvii. 1003. [1120] _Instit._ x. 14. [1121] Ibid. 17, 18; Ephesians iv. 28. [1122] Cassian, _Instit._ 21; Proverbs xxviii. 19. [1123] Cassian, _Instit._ 22. [1124] Ibid. 24. [1125] Migne, l. 718. [1126] _De Statu animae_, ii. 9. Erasmus praised the purity of his style in his dedicatory letter to the works of Eucherius (1531). [1127] _Gen._, ch. 70, ed. Herdingius. [1128] Ch. 65. Cf. Ebert, _Gesch. der christ. lat. Literatur_, iii. 18. [1129] _Op. cit._, p. 85. [1130] ‘Alpina corpora umente caelo educata habent quiddam simile nivibus suis’, Florus, _Epitome de Tito Livio_, i. 20, ed. Halm; Caesar, _B. G._ iii. 19. Cf. Dio Cass. _Excerpta_, τῆς Γαλατίας τὸ κοῦφον καὶ τὸ δειλὸν καὶ τὸ θρασύ, and Livy vii. 12. 11. [1131] ‘Ad militandum omnis aetas aptissima, et pari pectoris robore senex ad procinctum ducitur et adultus, gelu duratis artubus et labore assiduo multa contemptura et formidanda’, xv. 12. [1132] xv. 11. 5. [1133] _De Gub. Dei_, vii. 12. [1134] Ibid. vi. 3. [1135] Ibid. [1136] _Histoire de la Gaule_, i. 438. [1137] The laws against rape are many and severe. A man who abused a girl was delivered over to her as a slave with all his goods after receiving two hundred blows, _Cod. Vis._ iii. 3. 1. If a woman marries her paramour both are put to death, iii. 3. 2. An instance of their sense of honesty is the Goth who sent Paulinus, living in poverty and banishment at Marseilles, the price for his captured property, _Euchar._ 570 ff. [1138] _Cod. Theod._ ix. 7. 1 (A.D. 326). [1139] ‘Deportatione plectatur adque universae eius facultates fisci viribus vindicentur’, _Cod. Theod._ ix. 8. 1. [1140] Ibid. ix. 9. 1. [1141] ‘Denegata audientia patibulo adfigatur’, ibid. ix. 5 (A.D. 314). [1142] Ibid. ix. 6. 3 (A.D. 397). [1143] ‘Iudices qui se furtis et sceleribus fuerint maculasse convicti, ablatis codicillorum insignibus et honore exuti inter pessimos quosque et plebeios habeantur’, ix. 27. 1. [1144] Cf. ix. 19. 1. A Curial is to lose his social status as a punishment. [1145] _Euchar._ 87. [1146] _Hist. de France_, i. 3. 421. [1147] _C. I. L._ xiii. 1. 1, 1862, 2200, 2205; xii. 2039, &c. [1148] Cf. those of Sidonius and Ausonius. [1149] _Ep._ 88.