596.) The greater part of St.Austin's congregations were strangers to the Punic.] [Footnote 40: Spain alone produced Columella, the Senecas, Lucan, Martial, and Quintilian.] [Footnote 41: There is not, I believe, from Dionysius to Libanus, a single Greek critic who mentions Virgil or Horace.

They seem ignorant that the Romans had any good writers.] [Footnote 42: The curious reader may see in Dupin, (Bibliotheque Ecclesiastique, tom.xix.p.1, c.

8,) how much the use of the Syriac and Egyptian languages was still preserved.] [Footnote 43: See Juvenal, Sat.iii.and xv.Ammian.Marcellin.

xxii.
16.] [Footnote 44: Dion Cassius, l.lxxvii.p.1275.The first instance happened under the reign of Septimius Severus.] It is a just though trite observation, that victorious Rome was herself subdued by the arts of Greece.

Those immortal writers who still command the admiration of modern Europe, soon became the favorite object of study and imitation in Italy and the western provinces.