15/33 [x.] 2.) This exalted idea of the consulship is borrowed from an oration (iii.p. 107) pronounced by Julian in the servile court of Constantius. See the Abbe de la Bleterie, (Memoires de l'Academie, tom.xxiv.p. 289,) who delights to pursue the vestiges of the old constitution, and who sometimes finds them in his copious fancy] The proudest and most perfect separation which can be found in any age or country, between the nobles and the people, is perhaps that of the Patricians and the Plebeians, as it was established in the first age of the Roman republic. |