34 .-- G.
It was scarcely this measure.

Gildo had cut off the African as well as the Egyptian supplies .-- M.] [Footnote 60: The regions of Constantinople are mentioned in the code of Justinian, and particularly described in the Notitia of the younger Theodosius; but as the four last of them are not included within the wall of Constantine, it may be doubted whether this division of the city should be referred to the founder.] [Footnote 61: Senatum constituit secundi ordinis; Claros vocavit.
Anonym Valesian.p.715.The senators of old Rome were styled Clarissimi.

See a curious note of Valesius ad Ammian.Marcellin.

xxii.
9.

From the eleventh epistle of Julian, it should seem that the place of senator was considered as a burden, rather than as an honor; but the Abbe de la Bleterie (Vie de Jovien, tom.ii.p.