[1218] Symm. _Ep._ iv. 32. Cf. iv. 18; Symmachus refuses the request that he should write a history. [1219] _Ep._ viii. 15. 1. [1220] _De Scholis Rom. in Gallia Comata_, p. 29. [1221] See Woodward, _Christianity and Nationalism in the later Roman Empire_, p. 5. Cf. the saying of Donatus ‘quid est imperatori cum ecclesia?’ [1222] Cf. Woodward, _Christianity and Nationalism in the later Roman Empire_ (1916). [1223] Ibid., p. 5. [1224] Orosius, v. 2. 1 (quoted Dill, _op. cit._, p. 315). [1225] Strabo, iv. 4. [1226] See p. 9. Lucian in the second century found a Gallic philosopher, ἀκριβῶς Ἑλλάδα φωνὴν ἀφιείς, Herak. iv. [1227] Cf. Fauriel, _Hist. de la Gaule_, i. 432. [1228] Jullian, _Revue internat. de l’Enseignement_, p. 37 (1893). Cf. Jullian, _Histoire de Bordeaux_, pp. 27, 28. [1229] Le Blant, _Nouveau Recueil_, No. 150. Cf. No. 326 (Narbonne) νιψάμενος προσεύχου and the Christian signs; the labarum, with α and ω. [1230] Ibid., No. 374. [1231] Cf. Jerome, _Ep._ 130 ‘negotiatoribus et avidissimis mortalium Syris’, and Eumen. _Pro Instaur. Schol._ 12 ‘Syrus mercator’. [1232] Le Blant, _Épigraphie chrétienne_, p. 43. [1233] _Pro Instaur. Schol._ 7. [1234] ‘Genitor ille deorum oceanus’ = _Iliad_ Ξ 201 of which 178 appears in ‘Iovi et Iunoni recubantibus novos flores terra submisit’. Cf. Brandt, _Eumenios von Augustodunum_, 20. [1235] Cecropiae commune decus Latiaeque camenae _solus_ qui Chium miscet et Ammineum.—_Ep._ xxxi. 31. [1236] _Cod. Theod._ xiii. 3. 11. [1237] e.g. _Misopogon_, 342 (see Hertlein). One of the boasts of Favorinus of Arles (second century) was that, though a Gaul, he could write and speak Greek, Philostratus, _Vita Soph._ i. 206 (ed. Kayser). [1238] _Pro Instaur. Schol._ 17. [1239] _Domest._ iv. 9. [1240] _Prof._ viii: Obstitit nostrae, quia, credo, mentis tardior sensus, neque disciplinis adpulit Graecis puerilis aevi noxius error. The _credo_ seems to be ironical, and more a criticism of the masters than of himself. [1241] Stahl, _De Ausonianis studiis poetarum Graecorum_, ad init. [1242] e.g. _Ep._ viii ‘πολύ cantica τέκνα’, etc.; ‘nunquam ipse torquet αὔλακα’ _Ep._ vi. 10. [1243] e.g. οἱ πλεῖστοι κακοί quod est Latinum: plures hominum sunt mali. [1244] Sedulum cunctis studium docendi, fructus exilis tenuisque sermo.—_Prof._ viii. 5. [1245] Esset Aristarchi tibi gloria Zenodotique Graiorum, _antiquus si sequeretur honos_.—_Prof._ xiii. 3. [1246] Bolland, i, Jan., p. 50, _vita Eugendi_ ‘Lectioni namque se in tantum die noctuque ... dedit et intendit ut praeter Latinis voluminibus etiam Graeca facundia redderetur instructus’. [1247] i. 13. Cf. _Contra Petilianum_, i. 91 ‘Graecae linguae perperam assecutus sum et proprie nihil’. [1248] _Confess._, _l.c._ [1249] Ibid. 14. [1250] _De Paul. Pell. vita et carmine_, p. 34. [1251] Ibid. 35. [1252] _Euchar._ 77. [1253] Cf. Auson. to Drepanius, _Eclog._ i. 11: