[49] _C. Th._ xv. 7. 1, 2 (371); xv. 7. 4 (380); xv. 7. 9 (381). Historians have seen in some of these rescripts which are dated from Milan the influence of St. Ambrose. _C. Th._ xv. 7. 13 (414) seems to withdraw the concessions, in the interest of the public _voluptates_, but this may have been only a temporary or local measure. [50] _C. Th._ xv. 7. 11 (393); xv. 7. 12 (394); xv. 13. 1 (396). [51] _C. Th._ iv. 6. 3 (336) ‘scenicae ... quarum venenis inficiuntur animi perditorum’; xv. 7. 8 (381), of the relapsing _scenica_, ‘permaneat donec anus ridicula, senectute deformis, nec tunc quidem absolutione potiatur, cum aliud quam casta esse non possit.’ [52] _C. Th._ xv. 7. 12 (394). [53] _C. Th._ xv. 6. 2 (399) is explicit, ‘ludicras artes concedimus agitari, ne ex nimia harum restrictione tristitia generetur.’ [54] _C. Th._ vi. 4. 2 (327); vi. 4. 4 (339); vi. 4. 29 (396); vi. 4. 32 (397). It appears from the decree of 396 that the ‘theatralis dispensio’ of the praetors had been diverted to the building of an aqueduct; they are now to give ‘scenicas voluptates’ again. Symmachus, _Ep._ vi. 42, describes his difficulties in getting _scenici_ for his son’s praetorship, which cost him £80,000. They were lost at sea; cf. Dill, 151. [55] See Appendix A. [56] _C. Th._ xv. 7. 5 (380); xv. 7. 10 (385); _C. Iust._ xi. 41. 5 (409). [57] _C. Th._ xv. 7. 8 (381); xiv. 7. 3 (412). [58] _C. Th._ xvi. 10. 3 (346). But _C. Th._ xvi. 10. 17 (399) forbids ‘voluptates’ to be connected with sacrifice or superstition. [59] A. Puech, _St. Jean Chrysostome et les Mœurs de son Temps_ (1891), 266, has an interesting chapter on the _spectacula_. He refers to _Hom. in Matt._ 6, 7, 37, 48; _Hom. in Ioann._ 18; _Hom. in Ep._ 1 _ad Thess._ 5; _Hom. de Dav. et Saul_, 3; _Hom. in Prisc. et Aquil._ 1, &c. Most of these works belong to the Antioch period; cf. also Allard, i. 229. In _de Sacerdotio_ 1, Chrysostom, like Augustine, records his own delight in the stage as a young man. [60] _P. G._ lvi. 263. [61] _C. I. C. Nov. Iust._ cv. 1 (536) ‘faciet processum qui ad theatrum ducit, quem pornas vocant, ubi in scena ridiculorum est locus tragoedis et thymelicis choris’; cf. Choricius, _Apology for Mimes_, ed. Ch. Graux, in _R. d. Philologie_, i. 209; Krumbacher, 646. [62] _C. Th._ iv. 6. 3 (336); _C. Iust._ v. 5. 7 (454). [63] _C. Iust._ v. 4. 23 (520-3) allows the marriage on condition of an imperial rescript and a _dotale instrumentum_. _C. Iust._ i. 4. 33 (534) waives the rescript. It also imposes penalties on _fideiussores_ or sureties of actresses who hinder them from conversion and quitting the stage. For similar legislation cf. _Nov._ li; lxxxix. 15; cxvii. 4. By _Nov._ cxvii. 8. 6 a man is permitted to turn his wife out of doors and afterwards repudiate her, if she goes to theatre, circus, or amphitheatre without his knowledge or against his will.