It resembles our court almanacs, (Red Books,) with this single difference, that our almanacs name the persons in office, the Notitia only the offices.

It is of the time of the emperor Theodosius II., that is to say, of the fifth century, when the empire was divided into the Eastern and Western.

It is probable that it was not made for the first time, and that descriptions of the same kind existed before .-- G.] [Footnote 72: Pancirolus, in his elaborate Commentary, assigns to the Notitia a date almost similar to that of the Theodosian Code; but his proofs, or rather conjectures, are extremely feeble.

I should be rather inclined to place this useful work between the final division of the empire (A.D.

395) and the successful invasion of Gaul by the barbarians, (A.D.