Quem pluris faciunt novem sorores, quam cunctos alios Marone dempto. [1254] _Saint Augustin_, p. 57 (transl.). [1255] Quae doctrina duplex (i.e. the study of the two languages) sicut est potioribus apta ingeniis, geminoque ornat splendore peritos, sic sterilis nimium nostri, ut modo sentio, cordis exilem facile exhausit divisio (of the languages) venam.—_Euchar._ 81. Cf. 117 ‘Argolico pariter Latioque instante magistro’. [1256] _Corp. Scriptt. Eccl. Lat._ xvi. 1. 277. [1257] _Euchar._ 119-21. [1258] Ibid. 115-18. [1259] _Confess._ i. 14. [1260] Cf. Frank, _Roman Imperialism_, 186 ff., also 149, 191, 220. [1261] Cf. Giles, _Roman Civilization_, p. 11. [1262] _Aemil. Paul._ 6, 7. Cf. Ussing, _Erziehung bei den Griechen und Römern_, p. 123. [1263] _De Fin._ i. 3, ‘hoc tam insolens domesticarum rerum fastidium’. Cf. _Tusc._ ii. 15; iii. 5, 8, 10; _Pro Caecina_, 18; Sen. _Ep._ 58. Cicero’s repeated and emphatic protests show how strong the hellenizing tendency was in his day. [1264] Plin. _Ep._ iv. 18. [1265] Seneca, _Ep._ lvii. 1. [1266] e.g. _De Fin._ i. 6. [1267] _De Rhet._, § 2. [1268] Glover, _Life and Letters in the Fourth Century_, p. 188. [1269] ‘Sic in foro pueros a centumviralibus causis auspicari ut ab Homero in scholis’, _Ep._ ii. 14. [1270] ‘Initium quoque eius (Grammaticae) mediocre exstitit, siquidem antiquissimi doctorum qui iidem et poetae et semigraeci erant ... _nihil amplius quam Graecos interpretabantur_ aut si quid ipsi Latine composuissent praelegebant’, _De Grammaticis_, § 1. [1271] _Scriptt. Hist. Aug._ xix. 27 (2). [1272] _Satyr._ 5. [1273] _Instit._ x. 1. 46. [1274] _Prof._ xxi; Jung, _De Scholis Rom. in Gallia Comata_, p. 25. [1275] _Euchar._ 72. [1276] _Protrep._ 45. [1277] _Ep._ cvii. 9. [1278] _Revue internat. de l’Enseignement_, 1893, p. 38. [1279] _Op. cit._, p. 24. [1280] _B. G._ lv. 5. [1281] _Epigr._ lxvii and the eight following epigrams. [1282] _Epigr._ lxxi. It must be remembered, however, that such enthusiasm was very often conventional. The work was very famous in literature (cf. Pliny, _N. H._ xxxiv. 57 ‘Myronem ... bucula maxime nobilitavit celebratis versibus laudata’) and Ausonius’s appreciation may be worth little more than that of the thirty-six epigrams on Myron’s heifer preserved in the Greek Anthology. That the appreciation of an epigram, however, need not necessarily be artificial is proved, e.g. by iv. 54 of the Anthology of Planudes. [1283] p. 433, Peiper’s ed. Cf. Petron. 88 ‘Myron, qui paene hominum animas ferarumque aere comprehenderat’. [1284] Habet sepulcrum non id intus mortuum, habet nec ipse mortuus bustum super; sibi sed est ipse hic sepulcrum et mortuus. (_Carmina a Thaddaeo Ugoleto Ausoni Epigrammaton libro inserta._) [1285] _Ep._ viii. 6. 10 ‘cultor aliquis e primis architectusque’. Cf. _Ep._ vi. 12. 3. [1286] _Claudianus und Sidonius_; Dalton, Introd. to Sidonius, p. 101. [1287] _Carm._ xxii.